Word: successor
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However, his successor, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who replaced Eliot in 1909, led the movement for racially restrictive admissions at Harvard, supported by a majority of the alumni. Fearing that American political and social institutions could not survive in a heterogeneous society, Lowell attempted to enact a limit to the "proportion of Jews at the College," but was later rejected by the Overseers...
...expect that the Institute's prestige will only grow as its mission, unhindered by the illusion that it is still a college, becomes clear and well-defined. Wilson's successor faces the formidable task of molding the Institute's identity and crafting its success. How this will be accomplished is still unclear, but it is our hope that the promise of this beginning is not squandered. Here is a unique opportunity for Radcliffe to change without compromising its integrity or importance as an institution but rather to increase both...
...correcting the dramatic inequalities of wealth and power bequeathed by apartheid, imbalances that have resulted in growing unemployment and burgeoning violence. Mandela is almost certain to be replaced as president by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, 56, who has effectively run the government since being anointed by Mandela as his successor two years ago. Although the former ANC diplomat?s competence is unimpeachable, the South African media is awash with speculation about whether Mbeki is an Africanist ideologue or a pragmatist, a democrat or an authoritarian. But with media interviews extremely rare and leaks from his inner circle unheard of, almost...
...months after retiring from the army, in 1995, Barak entered politics as Rabin's Interior Minister. When Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing zealot that November, Shimon Peres, the successor, quickly made Barak Foreign Minister. But the moment Peres lost to Netanyahu in the 1996 election, Barak jumped in to take over as party chief, rankling Labor leaders, who regarded the former general as an upstart...
When protesting students and street mobs finally drove Suharto, Indonesia's long-serving President, from office a year ago, he stood meekly to the side as his successor, B.J. Habibie, took the oath of office. Then Suharto slipped quietly from view. But the onetime autocrat has been far busier than most of his countrymen realize. In July 1998 the U.S. Treasury's attention was caught by reports that a large sum of money linked to Indonesia had been shifted from a bank in Switzerland to one in Austria. As part of a four-month investigation that covered 11 countries, TIME...