Word: successor
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...produced before the SAT's were recentered," he said. "So we scrapped that, because the world's a different place from 1980. [The new book] is the spiritual successor to the Big Book of College Life...
...what may be her final speech as Radcliffe President, Linda S. Wilson discussed her nearly 10 years in office at Radcliffe's annual alumnae luncheon and passed on her robes of office to her successor Mary Maples Dunn...
...crowds and all the political world-shaking, though, John Paul has not been able to solve all of the Catholic Church?s problems with modernity. Quite possibly, he has created some. John Paul II has appointed more than three quarters of the College of Cardinals that will choose his successor, as well as a great number of bishops worldwide who will one day become cardinals ?- ensuring that this pope?s strict conservatism will likely dominate church doctrine for generations to come...
Nelson Mandela?s miracle will look easy compared with the feat being attempted by his successor. South Africa?s elder statesman bowed out of the presidency Wednesday as his hand-picked heir, Thabo Mbeki, was inaugurated as head of a state that has abolished apartheid but not yet overcome its legacy. Offering a sober assessment of the dramatic social inequalities that persist in post-apartheid South Africa, Mbeki dedicated his government to overcoming unemployment, hunger, poverty and crime. "The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited...
...gallery, similar in concept to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The same architect, Frank Gehry, and other big names, worked on the initial plan. But in 1988 Krens moved to the Guggenheim, and the economic boom known as the "Massachusetts Miracle" evaporated, taking the funding with it. Joseph Thompson, Krens' successor, was left holding the baby. He has proved a shrewd parent. Thompson and a local architectural firm, Bruner/Cott & Associates, scaled back the original grand scheme. As a result, they may have ended up with something more interesting...