Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Egon Krenz is alive and well -- and seriously unemployed. "Living without work is my biggest problem, and I don't think I'll get a job soon," says Krenz, 53, whose hold on power as Erich Honecker's successor lasted a mere seven weeks. Since his fall, Krenz has kept busy jogging near his home in Berlin, doing the family shopping and writing When Walls Fall, a personal memoir and an account of the last days of the old regime. While he was in a West German bookstore recently, an East German walked up and slapped him in the face...
...Harvard Corporation has named six of its own members--along with three other officials--to a search committee aimed at finding a successor to outgoing University President Derek...
...future is the Kims. While Kim Il Sung may be above criticism, his son and intended successor, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, 48, is not. The younger Kim, who is in charge of the nation's day-to-day affairs, is being groomed for the communist world's first dynastic succession, but many North Koreans privately blame him for the country's economic problems...
...hall that seemed so secure that he was referred to as "mayor for life." But last week, in the midst of jury selection for his trial on drug-possession and perjury charges, Barry called it quits. To remove the "shadow" of his legal difficulties from the election of his successor, he declared that he would not seek a fourth term. "Many of my supporters and political polls have indicated that if I were to run, I could win," said Barry. "What good does it do to win the battle if in the process I lose my soul...
...this big social theorist," says Rosa Ehrenreich '92, Romano's successor as PBHA president. "In the debate that emerged, everyone got upset and Anthony--kind of in keeping with his style--he decides what is right, and...it's unlikely that anything will change his mind. Even now he feels he was right...