Word: predecessor
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...novels, though “Detective Story,” appearing in English for the first time, may be the exception. Originally written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective Story” demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story a universal one of dehumanization...
...Even before Ahmadinejad’s more tumultuous visit to Columbia University last fall, the Kennedy School of Government invited his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, to speak in 2006. Protests swirled around the event, with invocations directed at the ex-president to condemn his replacement’s recklessness. None of the invective, however, dealt with the man’s actual political position as a pacifist and a pro-Western reformer. In 1997, Khatami won election three-to-one on the strength of young people passionate about the prospect of change (sound familiar?). Yes, theocratic authority overcame its democratic counterpart...
...Friday for a round of talks aimed at easing Kenya's post-election crisis, traveling what has been a path well-trodden by high-profile diplomats as the world tries to keep the chaos here from mutating into all-out ethnic war. Already in Kenya was Ban's predecessor, Kofi Annan, who is mediating negotiations between President Mwai Kibaki's government and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement of Raila Odinga, who claims that Kibaki's associates stole the vote through massive vote rigging. Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, who is a U.N. expert on humanitarian issues as well...
Debora L. Spar, a 16-year-veteran of the Harvard Business School, will be the 11th president of Barnard College, the New-York-based women’s college announced Tuesday. At 44, Spar is more than two decades younger than her predecessor at Barnard, Judith R. Shapiro. “She’s got a lot of energy, and the room lights up when she walks in,” said Business School professor Janice H. Hammond. “The bulb is a little dimmer without her, as someone put it today.” While...
...Young Republicans As "America's oldest youth political organization," the Young Republicans (or "YRs," as they're also known) have united registered Republicans from 18 to 40-years-old since 1935, including notable alumni Florida Governor Charlie Crist and his predecessor, Jeb Bush...