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From Washington to Jerusalem there is hope that Assad's all-but-certain successor, his son Bashar, might display at least a tad more flexibility than his father. But it seems likely that Bashar's first task will be to consolidate his power. The same weeping parliamentarians who mourned Assad pere found time on Saturday to lower the minimum age for the country's ruler from 40 to 34, not coincidentally Bashar's age. But now that he's legal to rule, Bashar will still face a blistering few months of on-the-job training. Among his key tasks will...
...drawn to the fun and sun often get caught in a web of drugs and sex. Burkhart was 11, Whitsett 16. When Burkhart finished high school, they moved in together. The relationship troubled Burkhart's mother Susan; Whitsett had been kicked out of the Navy for sexual misconduct. Her son seemed obsessed by his companion. Says Susan Burkhart: "It wasn't a friendship between equals...
...full of hope. He left--as so many negotiators have over the years--reminded that Assad's 30 years in power had made him one of the world's sharpest and most patient negotiators. Besides, American diplomats offered by way of excuse, the Syrian President was busy preparing his son Bashar to succeed him. Nobody suspected that would happen so abruptly...
With Hafez Assad's death, the spotlight turns to his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered ophthalmologist and perhaps the most unlikely political heir among the new generation of Arab leaders who have started assuming power in the Middle East. Indeed, Bashar's older brother Basil, a daring, charismatic figure, had been favored to follow in their father's footsteps until he was killed in a traffic accident...
...accounts, Dr. Bashar, as many Syrians call him, never wanted to be President. Educated in Syria and England, Assad's second son is an intellectual by temperament--rather like his brooding father--and not the best public speaker. But after his brother's death, Bashar returned from his studies in London, and at his father's request underwent accelerated military training, eventually earning the rank of colonel in the elite Presidential Guard...