He was working on a draft of a document that would rewrite Jordanian history--a letter replacing his 51-year-old brother Hassan as heir with his son Abdullah, 37.
By inviting the comparison, he clearly hopes to cast himself as a latter-day heir, with all the attending aura of drama and history.
Ironically, if Clinton doesn't accept the essence of such a reduction, he will be jeopardizing the electoral prospects of heir Al Gore with the resultant economic slowdown.
The US was heir to that, with the added power and zest of its expansion.
In April 1939 she rewarded him with an heir, Leka, who took the title of crown prince.
And over in Norway, King Harald is in his mid-70s with an heir who will be 40 in July.
And a parent's genetic relationship to a child can be 50%, while the one with an heir six generations removed is no more than 1.6%.
He was credited with halting at least three potentially fatal bleeding episodes in the imperial heir, Alexis, a haemophiliac, and with saving Vyrubova's life after a train crash.
The owner of "The Scream, " Petter Olsen, a Norwegian real-estate developer and shipping heir, is trying to win big with the sale.
Has been linked romantically with the Duque de Huescar, heir to the Spanish aristocratic house of Alba.
The powerful notion here is that initiating the succession process is the founder's choice, not his heir's, thus imbuing the elder with a sense of control--just when he needs it most.
She met Robert Louis-Dreyfus, heir to the storied Louis-Dreyfus fortune, with roots stretching back to the early 19th century, during a flight to London in 1988.
With Richard Gere, as the publishing heir and public-relations whiz George Putnam, who packages Earhart into a national celebrity and then marries her, and Ewan McGregor, as the aeronautics executive Gene Vidal, with whom she has an affair.
He told her he was an heir to the Rockefeller fortune but was on the outs with the rest of his relatives and never saw them.
The chief of ENI Spa, the world's sixth-largest publicly traded oil company, is heir to a long tradition of high-stakes dealmaking with rogues from Iran to Angola.
The people who know him best cannot fathom how the 24-year-old heir to a South Korean leather-goods fortune descended with such dizzying speed from a life of privilege and Ivy League education to a cell at Rikers Island prison.
Six states levy only an inheritance tax, with the rate depending on the relationship of the heir to the deceased and the taxes kicking in, in some cases, on the first dollar of bequest.
As we wrote in the Forbes 400 issue, Seagrams spirit heir Charles Bronfman and 5-hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava talked with us about their decisions to join.
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When that day comes, the ultimate promise of all divine religions will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being who is heir to all prophets and pious men.
Humanist writers and philosophers of the era touted the prosperous Florentine Republic, with its ruling signoria council and trade guilds, as heir to the ideal classical civilizations of Athens and Rome, spurring civic pride.
Pritzker, age 54 and an heir to the Hyatt Hotels Corp. fortune, is married with kids and runs a San Francisco private equity firm that has bet on a very different hotel chain from the one his father and grandfather built.
With a weekly circulation of 400 000, Closer is a natural heir to France's first gossip magazine, German-owned Voici introduced in 1981.
For instance, the requirement to keep grades at a certain level--Levy cuts money off if an heir's GPA dips below 3.0--may unfairly penalize heirs with learning disabilities.
Prospects that come ready made with all the heart-ache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to which they in turn inevitably inflict upon the salesman.
StarWars.com has released its second video based on an interview with George Lucas, the former CEO of Lucasfilm, and Kathleen Kennedy, the heir to the empire.
There are those whose tastes mold institutions, like cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder , who bought his first drawing, a work by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele , with money from his bar mitzvah and went on to fund and found the Neue Galerie New York to showcase German and Austrian art.
It was friction with Ailes that drove Lachlan, the eldest of the three and until that point the anointed heir, out of the company in the first place six years ago, according to a New York magazine profile.
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