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...former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin became chairman, and German-born, London-based Sir Win Bischoff was named acting CEO. A search party of board members is looking for a new boss while, six blocks south of Citi's Manhattan headquarters, the man whom Weill once saw as his obvious successor but booted in 1998, Jamie Dimon, was leading archrival JPMorgan Chase through the credit market's troubles with far less drama...
...indeed possible. Surely we can take these happy messages from President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration ceremony a couple of weeks ago. She brought smiles to every face by reading from President James B. Conant’s ’14 1951 letter to his unknown successor. It began, “Dear Sir”—a stunning reminder that in 50 years, even at Harvard, we can transcend our unacknowledged prejudices...
...level, personal contacts between military commanders on both sides. For now, Washington can maintain that line about Pakistan because that country's two highest military leaders have close ties to the U.S. or Britain. General Pervez Musharraf, who is also President, was trained in England, and his likely military successor General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani was trained in the U.S. Soon, however, that trust and fellow-feeling will no longer be available...
...from a political family. Even in China, where Mao Zedong rose to power demonizing feudalism, a class of "princelings," sons of former revolutionary cadres, has risen like feudal lords, including Shanghai Communist Party boss Xi Jinping, anointed during last month's Party Congress as President Hu Jintao's likely successor...
...popular, leftist leaders elected into office all around Latin America. Last Sunday, that family influence was maintained in Argentina for at least another four years, as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the wife of President Néstor C. Kirchner, was elected as her husband’s successor. Unfortunately, this regional political family provides only material for a tragedy in the real world, rather than a comedy on Fox. After the Bush administration disengaged almost completely from Latin America following 9/11, the power vacuum was swiftly filled with leaders that grew up during the age of military juntas...