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...year-old Bashar has exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent's shoes. And Syria's brutal authoritarian tradition certainly offers Bashar plenty...
...that the president had to be 40 or over. However, the arrival to power of Bashar may intensify a power struggle that has bubbled under the surface since Assad, who ruled from 1970, first brought the London-based opthalmologist home two years ago to assume the role of reluctant heir - as late as March, Bashar insisted to a London-based newspaper that he had no presidential ambitions. And in a twist as familiar in "The Lion King" as it was in the royal succession in neighboring Jordan, Hafez Assad has an outcast brother, Rifaat, with presidential ambitions, against whom...
...battle to recover the strategic Golan Heights. Having failed to achieve that goal through the war of 1973 or the proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations first in 1994, and then again last year, in the hope of resolving the issue rather than leaving it to an heir whose grip on power would be a lot more tenuous. The U.S.-brokered talks, however, failed to produce a deal that even Assad could sell the Syrians, and it may be years before the winner of the coming power struggle is able to command sufficient political authority to deliver peace with...
...running mate, so he is eyeing someone Dad nearly chose in 1988, before settling on Quayle. (One might say the elder Bush tapped the wrong Danforth.) Danforth of Missouri is a moderate Republican with ties to the party's conservative wing. After leaving office, the wealthy Ralston Purina heir returned to St. Louis, where he has been active in rebuilding the dilapidated inner city. (He also joined the board of directors of Time Warner, parent company of TIME...
...also want to make certain that heirs have the means to pay the estate tax without taking an IRA distribution. If the estate does not include enough liquid assets to cover the tax bill, consider a life-insurance policy that pays when the second spouse dies. That's when the bulk of your estate gets handed down. Such a policy should be put in the heir's name and funded through annual tax-free gifts...