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Articulate, energetic, with the kind of Kennedyesque profile to which men of a certain age aspire, Bremer has the look of a man used to success. But he has inherited a mess. His predecessor, retired General Jay Garner, is leaving Baghdad only 40 days after arriving. Garner insists that he always knew he would be replaced rapidly--he had told his wife that he would be home for his family's annual Fourth of July picnic--but everyone understands that the switch was accelerated because the first month went badly. Officials acknowledge that America's postwar planners made a central...
...negotiate an end to a seven-year uprising by Maoist rebels. Thapa might not be able to do so, either, given the pressure to produce results fast. Since ascending the throne in June 2001, Gyanendra has shown little patience with his Prime Ministers, firing not just Chapa but his predecessor Sher Bahadur Deuba...
...predecessor, Kim Dae Jung?who said South Korean agents tried to kill him three times in his days as a democratic activist?also vowed to clean up the agency. But by the end of Kim's presidential term in February, he was embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing...
...Washington insider entering a politically intense and widely influential post, Summers knew the importance of getting to know the local leadership. Grogan, who as Stone’s predecessor who helped guide the president-elect in his early days, says that Summers’ drive to build political relationships is a new and important one for the University...
...professors to examine the role of “education in a free society,” with a specific focus on the way Harvard educates its undergraduates. That group’s work gave rise to the creation of the General Education (Gen Ed) system, the academic predecessor to the Core that established a set of distribution requirements for all students...