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...Peter Costello "What counts is where you were when the work was being done." Experience: Treasurer since 1996 Prime Minister John Howard's anointed successor has shown he can wait for the top job - but for how much longer? Praised for piling up budget surpluses and introducing a Goods and Services Tax, Costello is set to be Coalition leader by the next election. Though a witty performer in Parliament, he often seems dour outside it, and is yet to test his popularity with voters as a potential national leader - or map out what kind of P.M. he would...
...added that he also oversaw an expansion of the school’s financial aid program, but that his successor will have to continue to raise funds for student scholarships...
...turn to the Pakistani military, which receives $150 million a month in American aid. "The best way to get Musharraf out," says an Administration official close to the current discussions on Pakistan, "is to prevail on his other colleagues in the military to remove him." The most obvious successor, Vice Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kyani, is deeply loyal to Musharraf--but the Western diplomat is quick to point out that Kyani once worked with Bhutto as her military secretary and that he was involved in the early stages of negotiating her deal with his boss. Bhutto must know...
...political scientist who served a second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew G. Faust, owns a Honda Accord, though she says she prefers to walk to work...
Three years after his death, Yasser Arafat still has the capacity to conjure up violence. At a huge memorial rally in Gaza on Monday, at least six people were killed and 80 wounded when supporters of the Palestinian chairman's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, clashed with Islamic militants of Hamas. Arafat's Fatah organization, now headed by Abbas, has been in the middle of a virtual civil war with Hamas since June. Indeed, they have divided up the two Palestinian enclaves between them, with Hamas dominating the Gaza Strip and Fatah controlling the West Bank...