Word: successor
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AMMAN, Jordan: Palace intrigue worthy of Shakespeare has rendered the Mideast's most stable country something of a wild card. Jordan's King Hussein on Monday removed his brother Hassan as his successor to the throne; named his 37-year-old son Abdullah as crown prince; and then immediately flew back to the U.S. for further cancer treatment. "Jordan suddenly has an acting head of state who wasn't even in contention for the crown a week ago, and this creates a measure of uncertainty," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Not that there's any reason...
...wasn't presaged by even the most knowing, most inside, most keen-nosed Olympics hound was that, more than three years before any torch lighting, the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee--a fine Mormon he was--would be brought down by a spousal-abuse charge, and his successor and others would fall in a huge, still widening bribery scandal. Salt Lake City wanted to hot up its image for the Olympics, and today it has no worries...
...From there it's been all downhill. Put under control of the news division in 1995 (after years under the auspices of the entertainment side), GMA seemed to drift and grow tired. Yet when longtime co-anchor Joan Lunden was eased out in 1997, no obvious successor was ready to step in. After Gibson moved on too, the show was left with a new team, Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman, who had little following or chemistry. The show's viewership has fallen further and further behind Today's; in the most recent weekly ratings, GMA even dropped behind...
...trial he believes he can win has begun, would be the time for Clinton to go out on top, to resign and earn the gratitude, if not the affection, of a morally restored society. Gore, like Scottie Pippen but with a weaker jump shot, is a more than able successor. Michael Jordan has retired, and the worst he ever did was palm the ball on occasion. Couldn't this president, guilty of more than just a few lane violations, follow suit? For the nation, nothing would so become Clinton's public life as the leaving...
...been the second most distinguished," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. She's survived "mostly because she has been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton to remove her." Her departure would have set off a series of acrimonious congressional hearings, at her successor's nomination proceedings, over some of the administration's alleged campaign improprieties. "It is an odd form of job security," says Cohen...