Word: successor
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...over every traffic intersection. Instead, less threatening pictures of Assad's son and heir apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash death in 1994. Syrians are calling the ubiquitous montage Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...talks that arose with the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May. In Syria's earlier rounds of negotiations, Assad moved cautiously, only to react bitterly to the deadlock that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher...
Toward the end of his term as Harvard President, Derek C. Bok spoke generally of greater international outreach from the world's oldest and richest university. His successor has devoted much time, energy and money to making the dream a reality...
...evidence that he?d diverted state funds into his own charities ? even though it turns out some of those charities were receiving public money and then loaning it to private corporations. But Suharto may be benefiting from the narrow terms laid down for the inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe focused exclusively on Suharto?s charities, and a Habibie aide told the BBC that Suharto could not be prosecuted over the numerous decrees he passed benefiting his family over the national economy because those were made legal by the fact that they...
Coach Joe Harty retired after the season and his successor has not yet been named...