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...Until recently, Mitt Romney ran as the only true heir to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, conservative on social, fiscal and national security grounds. Down here, he plays David to the Washington beltway Goliath. At a Wednesday night event in Columbia, he talked before a big blue sign that said "Washington Is Broken," and next to another big blue sign that listed his priorities. "Strengthen Our families" was relegated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Tough in South Carolina | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Masters student at University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where Prince William, heir to the British throne, was also studying. The Prince made every effort to be a normal student, adopting the rather hopefully democratic moniker "William Wales" and even frequenting a popular student pub called Ma Bells (pronounced "marbles" in his Highness' posh accent). My friends and I enjoyed his company. And why not? William was followed by a bevy of would-be princesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting Bhutto's Son at Oxford | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

...young country staggered through its grief, seeking a unified identity out of dozens of feuding ethnic divisions, history continued to deal blow after blow. Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister and Jinnah's political heir, was shot dead in 1951 by a Pashtun separatist. Fifty-six years later, Benazir Bhutto died in the very same park. One of her attending doctors was the son of the physician who tried, and failed, to save Khan's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Tragedy | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

Benazir Bhutto's son has been anointed her successor, the slain former prime minister's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) confirmed today. A senior PPP official had told TIME late Saturday that Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, would likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday. PPP members met this morning to discuss the party's future and to give Bilawal, a student at Oxford, a chance to read his mother's last will and testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto's Successor | 12/29/2007 | See Source »

...improbable that someone named George Bush, the most visible beneficiary of the G.O.P.'s longtime bias toward primogeniture, would be responsible for bringing its era to a halt. But he is chiefly to blame for leaving the party of his father and grandfather without a healthy male heir. Bush tapped Dick Cheney seven years ago to be his Veep in part because he did not want a Vice President whose loyalties were divided between the Oval Office and the Des Moines Register. Cheney ran once before and could have jumped in again (he will be only 67 in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Race: None of the Above | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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