Word: successors
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Muhammad never got to hold his somber march. But next Monday Farrakhan, his successor, plans to do it for him. And if the protege's plans are realized, it will be a mighty thing to behold. While King had an audience of more than 200,000 for his "I Have a Dream" speech on the capital's Mall, Farrakhan is inviting 1 million. And not just any million: 1 million black men, who will gather to listen for five hours to such speakers as Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, and to engage in an exercise in equal parts humility...
...British Prime Minister John Major argued vehemently against arming the embattled Bosnians. Major, who, save for the dearth of a bowler hat and umbrella is a worthy successor to the exalted post of Neville Chamberlain, said that arming the Bosnians would prolong the conflict. He is absolutely right. Had the U.S. not "prolonged the conflict" by arming the British in World War II, Herr Major would now be celebrating Oktoberfest in Trafalgar Square as we entered year 63 of the thousand-year Reich. We must never forget...
Randy Newman's Faust (Reprise), which just arrived in record stores, is a worthy thematic successor to such wonderful Newman albums as Good Old Boys and Land of Dreams, but this time it comes bundled as part of a larger dream. A stage version has just opened at California's La Jolla Playhouse for a six-week engagement, and will be followed--if the good Lord is rather less capricious than Newman portrays him in Faust--by a Broadway run, perhaps even as early as the late fall. The theatrical form seems to suit him perfectly, both by training...
...second, lower seawall also surrounds the atoll. The single entrance to the lagoon within is only a few yards wider than the beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried to enter the lagoon...
Roth remains a creature of legislative habits too. As Bob Packwood's successor as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Roth is as hot to cut taxes as Packwood was cautious. Probably best known for his role in the deficit-ballooning, Kemp-Roth tax cut of 1981, which slashed rates 25% across the board, Roth says he is determined to stage an encore performance, planning to cut estate and capital-gains taxes and provide tax relief by expanding individual retirement accounts and creating a new tax credit for families with children. He also wants to overhaul the federal income...