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...earlier incarnation, Aidid was - and some say still is - commander of a clan militia that ruled a district of Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen and a Marine who served in the first Gulf War, Aidid was a successor to his father, Mohammed Farah Aidid, the warlord who battled American troops in the Somalian capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this...
...Tehran, made more terrifying by the apocalyptic worldview of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the West, the dominant form of Christianity was Fundamentalist Protestantism, gaining new converts and, fused with the Republican Party, flexing powerful political muscles. And in the Vatican, the conservatism of John Paul II found its natural successor in the austere and more thoroughgoing orthodoxy of the new Pope, Benedict XVI. There seemed no stopping this cultural surge, just various attempts to adjust to it, restrain it from violence and temper its extremes...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced his decision to expand the faculty by 10 percent, from 635 professors to 700, by 2010. His successor, William C. Kirby, accelerated the plan in 2002, promising to increase the faculty to 750 by 2010. There are already over 700 professors...
...Being convinced that a conspiracy of elites killed Diana, the People's Princess, just fits into the zeitgeist. Says Cooper: "Your successor, and your successor's successor, is going to be writing about Diana conspiracy theories...
...What advice would you give your successor, Gen. Odierno...