Word: predecessor
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Power phoned The Ottawa Citizen, according to the newspaper, in an attempt to retract comments she made minutes earlier in an interview about Ignatieff, Canada’s deputy Liberal leader and her predecessor as the director of the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy...
...past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million in the past five years alone. The gravy train reached full throttle in October when Lee's predecessor, Roh Moo Hyun, held a summit with Kim in Pyongyang and agreed to provide a laundry list of goodies to the impoverished North, including the construction of shipbuilding facilities, the development of a special economic zone and the expansion of the Kaesong industrial park...
Tusk's line on the missiles was a particularly sharp departure from his predecessor, but not the only one. The previous government, led by Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose identical twin Lech is still Polish President, was so plagued by in-fighting, scandal and sour relations with Poland's neighbors that Tusk's victory in last October's election can be partly ascribed to the relatively competent impression he makes. But Tusk's success also represents Poland's growing acceptance of free-market ideas. In 1993, an economically liberal forerunner to the party that Tusk co-founded in 2001 drew...
When Pope Benedict XVI touches down for his first papal visit in the United States next week, you may notice that he doesn't have the same onstage flair as his predecessor, John Paul II. But you may also begin to notice a very handsome man of the cloth never far from the pontiff's side. That would be Monsignor Georg Gnswein, the Pope's personal secretary, responsible for everything from deciding who gets to see Benedict, to keeping His Holiness on schedule, to discreetly handing him his papal reading glasses just before a homily or other public discourse...
...have successfully faced the challenge of proving they have the substance to back up their cultural impact. Though it lacks a single as universally likeable as “Crazy,” “The Odd Couple” is a dramatic improvement over its predecessor for a variety of reasons. Danger Mouse’s arrangements are far more interesting and unique, combining various different musical elements while maintaining cohesion. This is especially apparent on some of the album’s more distinctive tracks, such as “Open Book?...