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...That's how we found Paul in 1994. My predecessor Chris Redman persuaded him to become one of the founding members of Time's newly decentralized European edition. Paul created the picture operations from scratch, recruiting a brilliant staff, including associate picture editor Maria Wood, and continuing the magazine's distinguished photojournalistic tradition - with a distinctly European focus. "For me the challenge was to know my magazine," says Durrant. "And to make sure the photographers understood it as well." He more than met the challenge, organizing photographs and photographers from Jutland to Johannesburg, Moscow to Madrid. As he says...
...nast's predecessor as Agriculture Minister, Karl-Heinz Funke, was a farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead...
Bush's take-it-slow-and-easy approach is yet another rebuke to his predecessor. Clinton came to office promising to work for the people "until the last dog dies." In Clinton's world, working hard meant exhausting yourself, something the President and his staff did regularly, especially in his first term, when leaving the White House before midnight was viewed as proof of a lack of commitment. Clinton's sheer effort was a key part of his message...
Summers' preexisting visibility in both academic and political circles may mean that if he does choose to speak on national issues, he will be heard more widely than his predecessor, according to Judith B. McLaughlin, an expert on leadership transitions at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...there have been signs all along that Summers' presidency may be more oriented toward undergraduates than that of his predecessor, current president Neil L. Rudenstine...