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...healthy. My successor, in my view, was obvious. And there's nothing worse than the last six months, when everybody else is counting down the days." He plans to write a memoir and launch a column about communications and the media for the Times Sunday magazine. His predecessor, Abe Rosenthal, has been a Times columnist since stepping down...
...student was stabbed by a sixth-grade girl, an assistant principal was punched in the face, and a policeman was assaulted by students. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly responded to the mayhem as big-city mayors often do: she announced plans to post 60 more cops on campus. But her predecessor in the job is convinced that a higher power is required. Ex-mayor and now councilman Marion Barry has proposed a law allowing students to lead nonsectarian classroom prayers. "Maybe, just maybe, it will turn some of our values around," he says. "We've lost...
What may bother admirers of China Boy is that Honor & Duty lacks the intensity and flamboyance of its predecessor. Still, it is a worthy achievement, and, as the wisest parents know, every child deserves to be measured on his own terms...
...made errors that demand correction, and archaeology and archives can provide illuminating new data. But fresh facts are often double-edged: they are as likely to create new uncertainties about the past as they are to resolve old problems. That leaves the modern writer hemming and hawing where his predecessor made magisterial pronouncements...
...staff's reflexive dismissal of Ambassador Flynn's accomplishments is unfortunate. Flynn, during is tenure, has transformed what was widely perceived as a sinecure into a high-visibility post. (Quick, name his predecessor...