Word: heir
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...Democrats see things, Lieberman is not the only traitor in their midst, though he is the most high-profile case. Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat and the heir apparent to the Appropriations Committee - if the committee's chairman, Robert Byrd, who will be 91 on Nov. 20, is given an emeritus role - publicly supported Republican Senator Ted Stevens in his re-election bid in Alaska. Inouye maintained that position even after Stevens was found guilty of seven counts of lying on his financial-disclosure forms to cover up expensive renovations done to his Alaska home by an oil-services...
...campaign event for Alice Palmer, the Illinois state senator who was one of Obama's mentors and, at the time, was plotting a bid for Congress. It may also have been one of several coffees organized at the time to allow Obama to be introduced as Palmer's heir apparent. Or both. (Palmer and Obama had a falling-out soon after; she supported Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries.) It's clear that during the coffee, Obama, then a young University of Chicago law professor, met an influential group of Chicagoans who would be crucial for his eventual...
...handling of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Hurricane Katrina have hurt the country’s reputation.On the topic of economic inequality, the former Treasury Secretary cited the importance of both creating prosperity and spreading its benefits.“People who once felt security in heir communities, their livelihoods, their nation, and the world no longer feel secure,” Summers said. “They think that their economic security is hanging by a thread, and they’re not sure what the new global system is going to be like for them. Our challenge...
...change, that ballet should not be a museum of artifacts but rather a constantly evolving gallery of new acquisitions. This is largely why the young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon was brought into the New York City Ballet as its resident choreographer in 2001. Widely heralded as the heir to the great neo-classical choreographer George Balanchine, he was entrusted with transforming the company for our post-Balanchine century creating what he called “a world that is not specific to either the narrative or the abstract.” Boston Ballet’s “Night...
...even keel, has rarely tried to push the same emotional buttons. The only comparable effort came shortly before the Democratic Convention, when the campaign latched onto McCain's admission in an interview that he did not know how many houses he owned with his wife, who is heir to a considerable fortune...