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...mocks you publicly, the money rolls in. Sure, they have their ideological differences. By now you have heard everything they have said about each other. But plenty of presidential candidates have said worse things about their opponents before they have chosen them as their running mate or their designated successor (witness John McCain...
...faux pas may extend to Harvard—where Gutmann was an undergrad in South House, now Cabot, and where she earned her doctorate in 1976. Gutmann, who was a finalist for the presidency when Lawrence H. Summers was selected, is now seen as a potential successor to Derek C. Bok when he steps down from his position as interim president in July...
...hitters on the campus political scene are primed to suit up for their own aspiring political careers right away. But former Dems President Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, for instance, has been spending his time molding the minds of youth with Teach for America. And Lesser, his successor, is currently tackling a slew of law school applications that will hopefully secure his choice of career path. “Ideally, I’d like to get into a law school, defer for a year, and possibly work on the presidential campaign in 2008,” Lesser...
...21st century ethnic melting pot-though that doesn't stop a tourist character in a new movie that's set there from asking, "Where is Mount Doom?" Rather than ring-seeking hobgoblins and hobbits, No. 2-about an ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night and a day. It's all part of the shifting nature of New Zealand film. As Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) says of the Fijian feast taking shape outside her suburban...
...governments; in Peshawar. Khan, who served as Finance Minister and chairman of the Senate, replaced General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq as President after Zia's death in a plane crash in 1988. In 1990 he removed Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, and in 1993 dispatched her successor, Nawaz Sharif, over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A Supreme Court ruling to restore Sharif to his position threw the country into turmoil, prompting an intervention by Pakistan's powerful military, which forced Khan to resign...