Word: heir
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Before he died, Kim Il Sung officially designated his son his heir, setting up the first dynastic succession in a communist state. The dead leader was named President for eternity; Kim rules as chairman of the National Defense Commission. Kim, once called Dear Leader, now uses his father's old title, Great Leader, as well. According to Hwang, Kim is all business when it comes to running his medieval kingdom. Working at night, he pores over reports, policy suggestions and even international best sellers--summarized by his aides to save time...
...foreplay of politics; Cheney can't stand it. Bush learned it at his father's knee; Cheney came to it much later and as a student. Worse, he was a student of political science, a man trained as a staff member, crunching the numbers, writing about highway reforms. As heir to a political dynasty, Bush was always a stand-in for the big guy himself, not an aide but a doppelganger. And although it was not until 1994 that he began to run seriously, he had been in the motorcade since college. Cheney was born to serve...
...Chung Mong Joon, the popular head of South Korea's soccer association, pulled out of the race, winnowing what was largely a three-horse contest down to a field of two: Lee versus Roh Moo Hyun, candidate of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party and would-be heir to Kim, whose five-year term as President ends in February...
Rose saw Fitzpatrick as his heir apparent from the start...
...last year's Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan, which failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and his credentials as a Vietnam War hero give him an edge. Kerry is a ferocious campaigner, and his wife Teresa Heinz is the widow of the late Senate Republican and Heinz ketchup heir John Heinz, giving Kerry access to a considerable campaign war chest...