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"When the question of succession arose, Mark Whitaker was next in line for the job," he said. "As the managing editor, he was the most qualified for the job."
DIED. JAMES GOLDMAN, 71, history-focused playwright and screenwriter best known for his gripping The Lion in Winter; of a heart attack; in New York City. Though his Broadway version quickly folded, his 1968 screen version of the 12th century battle-of-the-sexes succession fight between Henry II (Peter...
With Hussein in an American hospital for treatment of lymphoma and not expected to return to the Middle East for at another two more months, despite a good prognosis, Hassan is currently running the country, but in close consultation with the ailing king. In a way, it is a kind...
The latter qualities may have something to do with a life spent in the second chair. By law, Hussein's heir should have been his eldest son. In the first decade of Hussein's rule, however, his first two sons were considered ineligible because their mother was British. Anxious for...
After Fahd's 1995 stroke, the King designated Abdullah as regent, then quickly took back his authority. But while the ailing Fahd officially remains monarch and continues to chair Cabinet meetings when his spirits are up, Abdullah is now running the country's day-to-day affairs, and his succession...