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...might as well have a foreigner for a Prime Minister. Why not, if he has brains?" MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, former Malaysian Prime Minister, criticizing his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for sacking the head of Malaysian national carmaker Proton and considering hiring a foreigner as a replacement...
...President Bush's choice of a successor to Justice O'Connor can go a long way toward fostering oneness in this country and bolstering his popularity. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired her flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. Justice O'Connor eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and the U.S. has been the better for it. Gloria Kottick Iowa City, Iowa...
...Fahd leaves grave challenges behind for his successor, King Abdullah, 81, though as royal advisors are anxious to point out, Abdullah has been the Kingdom's ruler in all but name since Fahd began his decade-long health decline with a stroke in 1995. Fears of a messy succession struggle subsided when immediately after announcing Fahd's death following a bout with pneumonia Monday morning, Saudi television also declared that Abdullah would become King and that he had named Prince Sultan, 77, the powerful head of the Saudi armed forces, who recently recovered from colon cancer, as his crown prince...
...corporation. Since then, he's been criticized for expanding at a time of dwindling demand and stiff competition. Last week, DaimlerChrysler's supervisory board unexpectedly announced that the 60-year-old executive will step down at the end of 2005, more than two years before his contract ends. His successor, Dieter Zetsche, 52, who's credited with turning around the ailing Chrysler business in the U.S., will be hoping he can work a similar feat with Daimler. A new, streamlined strategy would help. "Instead of continuing to meddle with too many products in too many markets, they need to concentrate...
President Bush's choice of a successor to Justice O'Connor can go a long way toward fostering oneness in this country and bolstering the President's flagging popularity. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired her flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. Justice O'Connor eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and our country has been the better...