Word: successor
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...Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby, what one piece of advice would you give to your successor? ”I think I would urge my successor above all to keep a sense of perspective and to have a generous toleration of the vagaries of human nature. And to remember that, if it were not for the students, none of we faculty would be here...
...announcement ended weeks of speculation over the successor to Kelly, who spent more than five years as managing editor, a tenure that was capped last week when TIME won two National Magazine Awards, including one for general excellence...
...leadership seemed necessary, the aide "looked at me as if I'd said his child wasn't his." Despite the personal awkwardness of their complex relationship, Blair and Brown agree on most policy questions, and Blair knows a crucial part of his legacy will be how well his successor fares. But Blair, still only 53, will never have a better job. And "he has amazing self-belief," says a Downing Street official. At the same time, a Minister in Blair's camp retorts that his boss is anything but self-deluded: "If the poll numbers are this...
...cause of freedom that both Gaddafi and Bush love to talk about. Even though Gaddafi has done little to loosen his dictatorship, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, among other statesmen, have already visited Libya to signal the West's pleasure. President Bush, or his successor, could be next to visit the leader in his tent...
...disciplined and loyal McClellan wound up resisting a spontaneous vacation, however tempting it must have seemed after enduring months of questions about leaks and polls and insurgencies. He's been talking about liberation ever since Tony Snow was named as his successor April...