Where else would a Brooklyn boy with no discernible money-raising skills or philanthropic contacts be appointed, at 34, head of a world-renowned nonprofit group with expanding boundaries and cultural clout?

"Once and Again" is among a number of new series, including "Judging Amy" and "Family Law," aimed at aging baby boomers whose numbers continue to carry considerable cultural clout.

The world is invested in the Games and its organisers have seized the opportunity to showcase the best of Britain and its cultural clout to an international audience.

That literary divide was sharply apparent this month when youthful readers demonstrated their growing cultural clout.

The baby boomers have the cultural clout to significantly reduce age discrimination, he says.

Can you imagine 'the Boca Raton intellectuals' exercising cultural clout in the national media, with profiles about them to follow in the Times ?

On its own, your shoestring-budget show in a wee theater on 37th Street would have all the cultural clout of a Duane Reade opening.

What Latinos share, as Ms. Forero well knows, is a common language - Spanish - and rapidly expanding cultural clout.

America's soft power isn't just pop and schlock; its cultural clout is both high and low.

Given the expanding cultural clout of Latinos, it is not surprising that East Los Angeles street style is crossing over.