Word: predecessor
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...diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president to influence the debate. * Nearly seven years after taking office, Rudenstine has replaced the last vestiges of the administration left by his predecessor, Derek C. Bok, and implemented many of his initial goals through a maniacal devotion to the capital campaign. Again the time has come to plan, and with characteristically subtle insistency rather than the pontification of his predecessor, Rudenstine's vision comes into focus...
...LOSERS] RUDY GIULIANI Irked by predecessor's pro-tennis policies, party-poop mayor skips Arthur Ashe Stadium dedication...
...black population. Nelson Mandela was barely gracious in his praise of the man he had come to increasingly distrust in recent years ? particularly after De Klerk withdrew his party from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing the crimes of the apartheid era. Mandela's salute to his predecessor was barbed: "Whatever mistakes he may have made, and it is possible that he has made very fundamental mistakes as many of us have done, I hope South Africa will not forget the role he has played," Mandela said...
Mayor Archer's position on the issue is no clearer than a Guyton painting. His first instinct is to force Guyton to remove his artwork from the city-owned property. In 1991 the mayor's predecessor, Coleman Young, bulldozed a couple of abandoned houses that Guyton had decorated. But Archer's handlers have counseled otherwise, pointing out that the Heidelberg Project has become the area's most popular destination point and that its creator is a headstrong folk hero who would only benefit from a confrontation with city hall. As a result, Archer has gone so far as to quietly...
BERLIN: What made Egon Krenz so unlucky? East Germany's last communist leader, convicted today of manslaughter for the deaths of civilians who tried to escape his country before the fall of the Berlin Wall, got none of the breaks of his predecessor. Erich Honecker, the quintessential hardliner who ruled East Germany for 18 years, was judged too ill to stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until...