Word: successor
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...search for Pusey's successor was of a scale never before seen in Cambridge...
...Pusey's successor, the timing of his appointment might easily have seemed less than "propitious...
Like other religious leaders, Billy Graham has tapped his son as his successor. But Franklin has proved his mettle by a decade of missionary and medical-relief work in the downtrodden areas of the world. He holds the promise of being a great ambassador of Christ. BOB CLEATH San Luis Obispo, California
...like Michael Lewis, who filed fascinating dispatches from the campaign trail, including information on his own body odor; and Jacob Weisberg, probably the most brilliant young fogy to pass through the magazine since Michael Kinsley; and Mickey Kaus, author of a book on welfare reform and a worthy Kinsley successor as the TRB columnist. Margaret Talbot, executive editor since 1995, might be the best contender if it weren't for her boss's Groucho Marx-like problem: Would he give the job to someone who already works there...
Yeltsin had called for contacts, through middlemen, with Dudayev. Even though the Chechen chief is dead and the fighting continues, such feelers with rebel leaders are still possible. But for the moment the outlook is not good. Dudayev's successor seems to be his vice president, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who has a reputation as an ideologue and a believer in war to the end. Russian human-rights advocate Sergei Kovalyov, who has spent months in Chechnya, calls the new chief "a fanatic...