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The perpetrator of all these deceptions may not have been the "successor to Darwin," as many contemporaries thought, but he was arguably the paradigmatic social scientist of his generation, a man who more than any other made the study of human sexuality a respectable and legitimate field of inquiry.
When that moment arrives, Clinton, or his successor, should have a five-point plan ready.
His successor, Dr. Marcelo Caetano, feeling the spirit of the age, began tentative relaxations of the old regime.
The Victoria's Secret catalogue makes a fine successor to the one from Frederick's of Hollywood.
Tim Russert: Do you have any opinion of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a possible successor to President Boris Yeltsin?