Word: successor
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...civil engineer before the war, a practical and phlegmatic man who never raises his voice, even when he?s ordering the death of a traitor to the cause. He began his public life as a wrestler and it has been observed that in his presence he is the logical successor to Jean Gabin, another great screen actor whom the camera never catches acting. He just triumphantly is, a large, taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer. Forced by the Gestapo to play a deadly little...
...Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, who is leading the search for University President Lawrence H. Summer’s successor, will remain Corning’s non-executive chairman of the board...
...violent youth protests over labor reform this year. Able to claim he'd long denounced the mass immigration and bleeding heart permissiveness he has blamed the rioting and demonstrations on, Le Pen has been effective in mocking de Villiers as a calculating opportunist - or, as his daughter and potential successor called de Villiers, a political "vulture...
...retired generals who run what he calls a civilian autocracy. "If [Obasanjo] continues with trying to perpetuate himself in government, I fear chaos and civil war," he says. History isn't heartening. In 46 years, no democratically elected Nigerian President has successfully handed power to a democratically elected successor. Many still hope that next year Obasanjo will be the first to do so. But Bassie Roland Bassey, national secretary of the Obasanjo Solidarity Forum, says the country needs stability more than change: "You need someone who can hold the country together, who can hold the military together, who can hold...
...regime is tending toward immobility," says Hugh Roberts, a Cairo-based director of the International Crisis Group. "Old repressive reflexes are in full swing, which suggests that the regime is rather nervous and fresh out of ideas." An aide recently hinted Mubarak would consider stepping down if a suitable successor could be found. In the meantime, for Egyptians caught between terrorist violence and government repression, there's little cause for cheer...