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...bandied about in the media, but she was never a serious contender.”CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT DEANObama’s gain, though, is already being viewed by Law School faculty as Harvard’s loss. Many say they agree that Kagan’s successor will find it difficult to follow Kagan, who was described by law professor Einer R. Elhauge as “the greatest dean in her time.”Other legal academics have expressed uncertainty over whether Harvard can build upon the institutional improvements that Kagan has enacted or whether...
Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth - fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects. This month, both have their eye on the same thing: the plot turns inside the Russian Orthodox Church, which is weighing a successor to longtime Patriarch Alexy II, who died last month...
...Alexy was occasionally criticized for his closeness to Kremlin leaders. But by the time of his death on Dec. 5, he was seen as having ably steered the church through a momentous period of national and religious revival. His successor will have to navigate both Moscow's growing geopolitical ambitions and the first hints of Western-style secularism in Russian society at large...
...chatted about the old days, about how she had managed to negotiate a visit to meet Mandela in prison on Robben Island off Cape Town in 1967, about what had made him such a unifying leader. Inevitably, that drew comparisons with today's A.N.C. "[Thabo] Mbeki [Mandela's successor as president, who was forced out of office by his own party] has made so many bad decisions," she said. "It's been an enormous disappointment...
...coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, another far less heralded poll took place. For 30 years, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom had ruled the Maldives, making him Asia's longest-serving leader. But on Nov. 11, he peacefully relinquished power after the country's first-ever multiparty popular elections. His successor is Mohamed Nasheed, a human-rights activist whom Gayoom had imprisoned repeatedly. At his inauguration, the 41-year-old Nasheed said he hoped his government would serve as a "fine example to the international community." It's an example Asia, indeed the world, needs...