Word: saad
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...democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death, who is favored to become the next Prime Minister...
...following a warning that they might be next. But as the Syrians began pulling out their troops, paving the way for elections, the Hariri clan grew concerned that without its leadership, the opposition could falter, jeopardizing Rafiq's legacy. "We gave our father's blood for this country," says Saad, formerly the CEO of the family's $3.8 billion construction empire. "But we realized that we had to continue his dream...
...power with the Syrians gone. Nobody is talking yet about the most contentious issues facing the new parliament: how to disarm Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite group, and reconfigure the 1943 power-sharing agreement known as the National Pact. The task of uniting the country has fallen to Saad, a shy Georgetown University graduate who makes no secret that he would rather be scuba diving or riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood-paneled fourth-floor office where his father used to hold court. "My father didn't want a political dynasty...
...memo argues, the Constitution checks Presidents power to nominate judges by requiring the advice and consent of the Senate. The President should work with Senators from both parties before choosing judicial nominees, instead of attempting to fill the judicial ranks with extremely conservative justices like William Myers and Henry Saad. A less unilateral approach would lead to the nomination of moderate judges that would be acceptable to a broad spectrum of representatives...
...Syria was expected to complete the withdrawal of its 15,000 troops in Lebanon in time to win favorable comments in a United Nations report due out this week. With a new political era dawning, citizens learned the name of the man who may be their future Prime Minister: Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, the billionaire tycoon and popular politician whose assassination on Feb. 14 triggered the mass protests and international pressure that forced Syria to pull out its forces. Last week, the Hariri family formally announced that Saad, 35, one of Hariri's four sons from two marriages...