Word: inheritence
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...stage is being set for the next phase in the struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting...
...thought to have a keen interest in computers. North Koreans in Japan who support the Kim regime say they were told last month during a visit to Pyongyang that Kim Jong Nam has in fact been designated the Dear Leader's successor. That is no guarantee he will inherit the leadership, however. It took three years for Kim Jong Il to establish his own power base after his father, the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, died. "If anything happened to Kim Jong Il, it is very unlikely that Kim Jong Nam could assume power as his father did," says Victor...
...Zhang Jin, either. She's a concubine, one of thousands of women from all over China who flock to Shenzhen to become second wives to Hong Kong businessmen. She got herself a sugar daddy who is rich?and tantalizingly old. When he dies, Zhang, 20, stands to inherit half his wealth (the rest will go to the legal wife across the border). But during the long stretches when he's away, Zhang is bored, staying at home playing mah-jongg with other second wives and banking the $2,000 a month he gives her. "He is old, no energy...
...Napster and Kozmo got, but they might be better off without it. Someone will step up to replace Kozmo, and when they do, it will likely be a company similar to PDQuick, which operated profitably for a decade before receiving a small investment to facilitate expansion. The companies that inherit the fortunes of the Internet may not change the world, they may not have a millionaire-making IPO, and they may take a decade or more to build, but they will make one thing that the Kozmo’s of the world never could: money...
...world standards, the proposed legislation is mild. It would give women equal rights to inherit property and divorce and, in certain circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight...