Anyone who didn't know that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is in trouble would have been alerted by the opening sentences of this press release:
... Following the meeting [the CERN] Council issued this statement:
Confidence in CERN – in its management, in its ability to deliver, and in its future – was the key theme of the meeting. Confidence in CERN's technical ability was underlined in the report of the External Review Committee (ERC) presented to Council, ...
The heading of the release is superbly dreary:
CERN Council takes important steps forward
and was presumably designed to repel the inquisitive.
