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Faust’s leadership will no doubt be compared to that of her predecessor, who was often criticized as having an overly confrontational management style...
...first year, over 7,800 New England college students paid to have Operation Match pair them up, according to a Crimson article at the time. Datamatch’s predecessor also strived to make lasting pairs based on traits like prestige, security, power...
...Will Niyazov's successor pursue reforms? Berdymukhammedov has hinted at greater openness, fighting drug trafficking from Afghanistan and restoring some educational facilities his predecessor closed. A failure to reform could leave Islamic extremists in charge of a gas-rich state in a volatile region...
...Since taking the artistic reins of ADT in 1999, Stewart's own instincts have been unerring. Then a freelance choreographer and former dancer, his name was less well-known than that of Meryl Tankard, his high-flying predecessor, who had exited from the company after creative clashes with the board. In his 1995 piece for the Melbourne Festival, Spectre in the Covert Memory, Stewart had already begun his choreographic experiments with strength and power, and at ADT he would take this further, training his young troupe in yoga, martial arts and gymnastics. While Tankard's dancers were known for sailing...
Robert C. Clark, Kagan’s predecessor who became dean in 1989, inherited a school that had been torn by bitter fights between traditionalist professors and proponents of Critical Legal Studies, a liberal legal philosophy that questioned many of the fundamental premises of law. The clash between “the Crits” and the traditionalists, as well as fierce battles over faculty diversity, had brought faculty hiring to a halt...