Since the fall of communism, the pendulum has swung between right and left in a succession of unstable coalition or minority governments.

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When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.

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The appointment is a case study in the right way to manage transition at the top, says Margarethe Wiersema, an expert in management succession at Rice University.

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