Word: heirs
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...dimensional women in their lives. If Miss February were a brilliant philosophy student whose personality was completely compatible with mine, I might consider her appearance to be a bonus in her favor. Of course, my girlfriend would probably consider it a bonus in my favor if I were an heir to an oil fortune. But she's not making an appointment to get breast implants and I'm not frantically sinking wells in the backwaters of Texas. Idealizations are a fiction, and those who confuse fiction with reality have bigger problems than the posters on their walls...
...emergence of Sonia Gandhi as spokesperson of the Congress party has created more profound dilemmas. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi and heir apparent to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for nearly 40 of the past 50 years, Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Roman Catholic who became an Indian Citizen only 12 years ago. Her cross-country campaign for Congress has sparked debates over the question "Who is an Indian...
...step down to run for President next year. He has remarked how large and enthusiastic his fund-raising audiences have been. If he seeks the presidency, he almost certainly will not complete his term as Speaker, which is why there is a ferocious race to become his heir apparent. It is also why Paxon, who agreed to support the Speaker, refused when Gingrich urged him to back the re-election of the entire leadership. As Gingrich knows, disgruntled House Republicans are urging Paxon to take on Newt's top deputy, majority leader DICK ARMEY. That way, if Gingrich steps down...
Eton College--an all-boys preparatory school nestled below the Elizabethan turrets of Windsor Castle--boasts Prince William, heir to the British throne and son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, among its list of talented scholars...
...happen in California this week. Bauer has inserted himself into a battle between two Republicans in a special election for a House seat in Santa Barbara. The district is made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes instead the more conservative...