Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abdullah, 37, ascended to the Jordanian throne in February, following the death of his father King Hussein. The popular Hussein was known for his active role in promoting the peace process, an ideal Abdullah vowed to uphold...
...apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash death in 1994. Syrians are calling the ubiquitous montage Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...terrorist states, is promoting his son as the sort of Syrian leader with whom the world, Israel included, will be able to do business. Bashar talks the language of economics rather than politics, and, until his brother's death, had chosen a career in ophthalmology rather than following his father's path into the army and power...
...over camouflage fatigues. Bashar has taken charge of policy in Lebanon and spearheaded an anticorruption drive, but he is best known on the street as chairman of the Syrian Informatique Society, which is striving to wire isolated Syria to the Internet. He dispenses with the nationalistic swagger of his father's generation, and has been heard reflecting somberly on Syria's fears, his hopes for change, the impatience of youth and prospects for negotiating with Israel. For a son of Syria's strongman, feared and respected for ruthlessness and cunning, he has a surprisingly touchy-feely side. "Where...
Twenty years later, though, the former counterculturalist has, like much of his generation, embraced traditional domestic pleasures. He's happily married and the devoted father of four, including the now college-age Lisa. He has befriended his biological sister, writer Mona Simpson (who wrote him into her novel A Regular Guy) and made contact with his birth mother. It's hard not to be charmed by the sheer joy Jobs derives from talking, mostly off the record, about his family: how his youngest daughter just started waving him off to work; how he won't let his kids watch...