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...trial he believes he can win has begun, would be the time for Clinton to go out on top, to resign and earn the gratitude, if not the affection, of a morally restored society. Gore, like Scottie Pippen but with a weaker jump shot, is a more than able successor. Michael Jordan has retired, and the worst he ever did was palm the ball on occasion. Couldn't this president, guilty of more than just a few lane violations, follow suit? For the nation, nothing would so become Clinton's public life as the leaving...
...devastated if someone else does it first," he says. "But I'll get over it. I'd rather see somebody do it than nobody." That way, at least, Seed could pursue his next project--reprogramming DNA to achieve immortality--which he sees as the all-important successor to cloning. So here's a conundrum: Which would be stranger, a world full of Richard Seeds, or a world in which Seed never goes away...
...been the second most distinguished," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. She's survived "mostly because she has been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton to remove her." Her departure would have set off a series of acrimonious congressional hearings, at her successor's nomination proceedings, over some of the administration's alleged campaign improprieties. "It is an odd form of job security," says Cohen...
With Livingston out, the rush was on to fill the speakership. Even as the House was preparing to vote on impeachment and Livingston's corpse was still warm, G.O.P. leaders were just a few feet away tapping a successor. Dennis Hastert, a six-term Illinois Congressman, was the reluctant draft pick. "What's Dick going to do?" Hastert asked David Hobbs, chief of staff for majority leader Dick Armey, who was once considered a contender for the top spot. "I don't know," Hobbs answered. "What are you going to do?" Hastert responded, "I don't know." But before...
...Terfel. "At some point," he confides, "we're going to open with a Don Giovanni starring Bryn." No, Terfel can't sing a high C, but Volpe is betting that won't matter. "Bryn's the one who has all of the goods," he says. "He's the natural successor." A charismatic actor with a voice of bronze, Terfel, 33, also has the popular touch without which no classical singer can become a full-fledged superstar; at his 1996 Carnegie Hall recital debut, he actually led the delighted audience in a sing-along version of Flanders and Swann's Hippopotamus...