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...room, Strauss offered a toast to "you, your country and to what you've done for the world. It has been," he added, "an inspiration to all of us." Yeltsin smiled and gave a surprising response. The date, he noted, was March 2, which is the birthday of his predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev. "I think we should drink a toast to Mikhail Sergeyevich," Yeltsin said, "and to everything he accomplished...
Meyer's pay is considerably more than the $354,192 earned by his predecessor, Walter M. Cabot...
...itself. After three months on the job, chief of staff Sam Skinner has emerged as a restless, one- minute manager who cannot stay focused on a subject for long. Skinner's vaunted personnel reorganization has so far only added extra bodies to the already bloated operation left by his predecessor John Sununu. When Skinner released a plan two weeks ago to funnel all policy issues through a single West Wing committee, one top official cracked, "It's perfect. After three years, we finally get a policymaking body, but we have no policy to make...
...great surprise that The Pelican Brief, Grisham's new novel, is as close to its predecessor as you can get without running The Firm through the office copier. As before, a handsome young couple are pursued by thugs. In the background are members of a corrupt law firm who sleazily shuffle paper, rack up grossly inflated billable hours and conspire in the bumping off of a couple of liberal Supreme Court Justices...
Every Harvard person knows that the Memorial Church and its predecessor, Appleton Chapel, have a history rich in service to the University and beyond...