Word: heir
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...speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself as a kind of outsider, and vowed to drag Sony out of Morita's "sentimental shadow" into rationalized daylight...
...veterans—junior Michele McAteer and sophomore Becky Voaklander—will see the majority of the extra innings this weekend, but rookies Shelly Madick and Amanda Watkins will also be afforded the chance to distinguish themselves as the heir apparent...
...Saddam Hussein; I want to cooperate." Assad's words may be true in ways he never intended, however. He's nothing like Saddam, personally: An accident of history - the car accident that killed his older brother, who had long been groomed as their autocratic father's heir - thrust the then 38-year-old opthalmologist who had been living in genteel London into command of a regime grounded on a brutality that would be instantly recognizable to Saddam. Bashar's indecisive handling of the job has left the elite most involved in the regime deeply unhappy at his performance, while Syria...
...leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question is, Is he really in charge?" a U.S. intelligence expert told me. "Is Syria singular or plural...
...legality of her attendance at her son’s wedding by stating that she wishes to ensure that the event remains “low key.” This seems silly, though, when one remembers that no royal event—especially one attended by heartthrob heir Prince William and Prince Harry, a headline-grabber in his own right—is ever...