Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undergraduates probably noticed as the 13-odd Gen Ed courses--once the staple of a Harvard education--became an academic frill. This is because nearly all Harvard students have known only Gen Ed's successor, the highly touted Core Curriculum, which entered the course guide seven years...
...activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level party cadre. "He has good party credentials and is an intellectual...
Although Chiang is generally well liked by Taiwan's 19.1 million people, his age and diabetic condition have stirred speculation about a successor. Under the constitution, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, 62, would automatically succeed if a vacancy occurred. But Lee is a native Taiwanese who did not accompany Chiang's father, Chiang Kai-shek, when the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949, and he has never made it to the innermost circle of the KMT. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, 71, who does not suffer those handicaps, has had to take much...
...rumored successor in the Chiang family, Second Son Chiang Hsiao-wu, $ 40, a broadcasting executive, has suffered from being linked in the press, perhaps unfairly, with the Henry Liu affair. Besides, many in Taiwan are uncomfortable with the idea of a Chiang dynasty. For the moment, having survived the worst scandals in the KMT's 39-year rule of Taiwan, people are mostly hoping that the current Chiang remains in good health...
...follow. Over two decades, former Editor Thomas Winship had turned the Globe from a provincial, flatly written paper into a nationally respected, crusading publication that won eleven Pulitzers. An open, gregarious man, Winship nurtured scores of talented writers, who came to look upon him as Father Globe. Any successor would suffer in comparison, but Janeway, the paper's former Sunday managing editor, seemed especially resented. An editor of the Atlantic Monthly for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine, Janeway was considered an interloper by many longtime staffers and too austerely intellectual...