Word: heir
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...years Saddam's elder son, the wild, thuggish Uday, was considered the heir apparent. But Uday's penchant for excess was too much even for Saddam after the son, in a fit of pique, murdered a beloved bodyguard of Saddam's in 1988; Uday was jailed for several months. He has largely recovered from a 1996 assassination attempt that has left him barely able to walk. Though he is still a feared man, he has clearly been eclipsed by Qusay, 36. Qusay, say observers in Baghdad and Washington, is a force to be reckoned with. Sober, hardworking and deferential...
...period drama in director Clare Peploe’s Triumph of Love, a film adaptation of an 18th-century story by French playwright Pierre Marivaux. As a princess struggling to win the heart of a prince (Jay Rodan) while restoring the rule of her kingdom to its rightful heir, Mira dons a cunning and passionate persona that manages to crack the stoic visages of the prince’s rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love,” explains Mira. “[All the characters...
...general, wealth advisers say trusts should lift all conditions by the time the heirs are in their 40s or 50s. For younger heirs, though, Johnson favors trusts that provide money in proportion to the lifestyle they have attained on their own. A trust might provide a 20% down payment for a first home--with the size of the home limited only by the monthly payments the heir's salary can support. A trust set up by one of Johnson's clients pays heirs three times their annual salary but no more than $200,000 a year to any one heir...
...like trusts that hold back money in the case of ongoing gambling or substance abuse. But often incentive trusts go wrong in tying distributions to marrying or raising children within a faith. The courts won't uphold such conditions. It's also a bad idea to give one heir leverage over others by choosing one to be trustee. Likewise, rewarding an underachieving heir with a larger inheritance may leave the slighted heirs resenting you after you're gone. If that's what you want, just leave...
...plan. He also nurtured the somewhat grandiose dream of using his new American followers to help him revitalize Zen in Japan itself, where empty formalism and corruption were increasingly becoming the norm. By almost all accounts, Suzuki's choice to leave Baker as his only legitimate American dharma heir was a disaster, and Suzuki himself even seemed to be aware of this fact beforehand. Why, then, did he insist on doing so? Keeping the enormous enterprise of Zen Center going, Suzuki knew, would require the abilities of a fund-raising Svengali, and he may have overlooked flaws in Baker...