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...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
LONDON: Who died and made the Guinness Book of Records the great sage of age? Jeanne Calment, that's who. When the 122-year-old record holder died in France this month, the world's most famous record book held a stony silence on who the successor to the "world's oldest" title would be. Today they announced the winner: Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, a 116-year-old native of Quebec, whose birth certificate is stamped...
...nation within a nation, radical communalists who threatened the economic order and polygamists out to destroy the American family. Attacked in print, and physically by mobs, some 30,000 were forced to flee their dream city of Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846. Led by their assassinated founder's successor, they set out on a thousand-mile trek westward derided by nonbelievers as being as absurd as their faith...
...unusual for a CEO to want to stick around or make life miserable for a named successor. Yet, says Robert Kavner, another top executive who left AT&T, "Bob is not a punitive person; he's not egocentric. This is about something of substance...
...having twice demonstrated his inability to groom a successor, Allen is now part of the problem. "Bob Allen is a caretaker when the company needs a visionary," says Scott Cleland of the Legg Mason Precursor Group. "The company has lost a year and a half in setting the direction for the next millennium...