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Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who's been dressed for combat for months, retorts that if the White House wants to hand the reins of U.S. foreign policy to Annan, then we ought to anoint him secretary of state.
"Having originally been written off as a stop-gap solution, the new President seems to have acquired a surprisingly firm grip on the reins of power," the newspaper observed.
Donald Kennedy, a biologist, former president of Stanford University, and once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will take the reins at Science in June.
He passed the reins to his kids, notably Josh Pons, who is 42 and seems to run the place, although there are Ponses everywhere.
Born in 1884, Partridge died in 1979; Paul Beale has picked up the reins in an able manner and continues to charge ahead.