Word: legacyism
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Her legacy includes 517 missions in 100 countries, and a near 30-year history of inspiring people around the world. It was only when a British television documentary profiled the Calcutta nun in 1969 that donations and volunteers began to flood in, and Mother Teresa became a household name. Ten...
DIED. CLARENCE KELLEY, 85, sturdy, reliable FBI chief who restored respectability to the agency; in Kansas City, Mo. Earning a reputation for incorruptibility at the Kansas City police department, Kelley was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1973 to head the bureau, which had been compromised by Watergate and J. Edgar...
Sensitive about unfinished business, Clinton last week began moving his rhetorical chips behind a new commission created by the deal to recommend long-overdue changes in the Medicare system--the Washington equivalent of hitting the snooze bar. The commission, by law, must report its recommendations to Congress in two years...
Brennan's warm, lovable personality--he had no hint of pretension and treated the court's janitors with as much respect as he did his fellow Justices--enabled him to build bridges across ideological chasms that produced not only landmark decisions but stepping-stones to future developments in every major...
After long years of captivity, Hong Kong is finally released. Now it returns to China with a colossal legacy and a new spirit. It is like a son who brings home with him not only an inheritance but also an updated modus operandi in free markets, democracy, trade expertise and...