41.   That poses a historic challenge for the party, which traditionally has allowed each president to name his successor.

42.   The president named Boris Silayev, who was deputy prime minister, as the acting prime minister, replacing Kubanychbek Zhumaliyev, Russian news agencies reported.

43.   The president named his brother Carlos Cubas as interior minister late Tuesday, after the resignation of Ruben Arias Mendoza, who offered no explanation for his departure.

44.   The president named the U.S.-educated economist Salim Hoss as the next prime minister of Lebanon on Wednesday.

45.   The president named Vajpayee prime minister Sunday after his BJP won the most seats in new elections held last month and early this month.

46.   The next president will likely name more than two justices to the Supreme Court, Clinton said.

47.   The reformist Bosnian Serb president named a moderate on Monday as new military commander, replacing a hard-liner loyal to former leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

48.   The outgoing president would name a successor, and the party would get him elected, by fraud when necessary.

49.   The president immediately named outgoing Labor Minister Irena Degutiene as the acting prime minister of the tiny Baltic country.

50.   The president named Gabriela Torres Ramirez as the new consul general in the U.S. border city of San Diego, California.