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Lemann got one detail wrong: Griswold didn't become Yale's president until a few months after Buckley graduated, so the president in question would have been Griswold's predecessor, Charles Seymour.
In the run up to Vladimir Putin's confirmation as the new Russian prime minister Monday, papers continued to speculate about the reasons for his predecessor's removal.
His predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu has done "incalculable damage to the peace process" by throwing Israel's commitment to international treaties into doubt, the paper said.
He'll have to, suggests James Adams, a predecessor, who calls UPI a "sclerotic, corrupted organization" staffed by "tired hacks."
Habibie of perpetuating the errors of his predecessor, President Suharto, the man who ordered the invasion of the former Portuguese colony in 1976.