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...leader since Chairman Mao has failed: pulling off a leadership transition without purges, midnight arrests or blood in the streets. Although the 61-year-old Hu is already China's President and chief of the Communist Party, until last week he still shared power with his 78-year-old predecessor, Jiang Zemin, who retained his post as chairman of the Central Military Commission...
...protocol-obsessed U.S. city outside of Washington, and McGraw is its smoothest operator. He has sold 30 million albums (his latest, Live Like You Were Dying, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1) without being excessively cornpone or mindlessly pop. In the process, he has done what his predecessor Garth Brooks could not do: reach an audience outside his genre while remaining well liked within it. "Nashville hates anyone who has ambitions beyond Nashville," says a country record executive. "Shania, Garth Brooks get no respect in this town. But Tim has done a good job of disguising his motives...
...against the dark side of Spanish machismo, stiffening laws against domestic violence and proposing the legalization of gay marriage and rapid, no-fault divorces. A radical democrat committed to feminism is a major departure for Spanish politics, where the most successful politicians - among them Aznar and his Socialist predecessor, Felipe González - were macho men with killer political instincts. Zapatero's bet is that he can govern effectively and retain power simply by giving the people what they want. But that's a fickle foundation for policy. The time is bound to come for Zapatero, as for all political...
Gilmore’s predecessor Dan Allen spent most of the 2003 season on the sidelines confined to a wheelchair. Stricken with multiple chemical sensitivity after exposure to toxins at a construction site more than a year before, by the beginning of the season Allen was unable to walk unaided and eventually lost all mobility below the neck. Despite his debilitating condition, Allen remained at the position he had held since 1996, fighting simultaneously for his own health and his struggling Holy Cross team...
...other reasons to display his kinder, gentler side. Even Lee's predecessor Goh has said "Singaporeans would like Loong to be more approachable," noting that Lee's "public persona is that of a no-nonsense, uncompromising and tough minister," and adding that such attributes make some fellow citizens "uncomfortable." Those citizens, these days, need to be humored. For Singapore is changing. The nation has been able to build a prosperous society on the back of a deserved reputation as a safe haven for foreign investment and for a clean, effective system of public administration?not always qualities found in abundance...