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...someone friendlier to Clinton, namely the 49-year-old Merletti. A 23-year veteran of the service, Merletti was troubled: Starr was chasing a conspiracy theory and had sent FBI agents to Bowron's house to try to prove it. Bowron, who had recommended Merletti as a possible successor, said that he informed Starr's investigators that his departure was voluntary and that he strongly supported the protective privilege for agents. Says Bowron: "It's not a new issue with the Secret Service...
Outgoing president Deepti Choubey '98 lauded the achievements of her successor...
...earnestness, they exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry, who has two degrees in metallurgy, talks about his invention as if it were the fax machine...
...taking an all-embracing ideology and imposing it on an entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. In his short career in power, from 1917 until his death in 1924, Lenin created a model not merely for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler...
...path to Allah began in earnest one day in 1974 when President Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor, abruptly ordered veteran leaders of the Brotherhood released from prison. Abdul Koddus, who was working for a Cairo paper, went to interview them and immediately became attracted to the group and its leader, Omar Tilmisani, who stressed tolerance and exemplary personal behavior. By 1976, Abdul Koddus had stopped drinking alcohol, married the daughter of a prominent Muslim preacher and joined the Brotherhood...