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...only thing certain about Gingrich's successor is that he will strike a lower profile while he wrestles the same alligators. The problem for the party is that the very traditions and mechanisms of the House may prevent the Republicans from finding the leader they desperately need. No member of Congress with the experience, the stature or the chits to be a plausible candidate for Speaker resembles the kind of Republican leader that last week the voters signaled they liked. "We still need to prove that we can be conservative without being mean," said a G.O.P. moderate Senator. In Washington...
...What happens when the CEO retires? Michael Eisner of Disney (who had a heart attack in 1994) and Sumner Redstone of Viacom (who is 75) have clashed repeatedly with potential successors, who then left. Both stocks have done well. But shareholders will get singed if these CEOs step aside suddenly. On the other hand, when Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl last month ran off his likely successor and agreed to stay on until 2002, the stock surged...
...from Pennsylvania is trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility" -? as opposed to impeachment, which will "come to naught...
...cuts, vilification of trial lawyers (who are responsible for exacerbating Y2K misery, we were told) and wild new ideas such as giving everyone their own Social Security investment account. The only sign that something had changed came when the outgoing Speaker endorsed, praised and bear-hugged his successor, Bob Livingston. Gingrich said he quit for the good of the party; his continued presence would be "an excuse for divisiveness and factionalism...
Wilson reassured one alum that gifts to Radcliffe would be used for their intended purpose, despite the form of Radcliffe's "successor institution...