Word: ares
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"The politics involved in running a big university are very similar to the politics of running a state government," Kraus says.
"It is not an office that has broken the law, as far as I can tell," he says. "But wherever the law hasn't been exactly clear about what has to be done, people have walked very close to the line of illegality and done things that are very wasteful...
"One of the things that got me hooked into this is that I was a legislator for many years and amassed a large number of services for helping people at many levels," he says. "And I have seen in effect that legislation go down the drain because people lost faith...
Massachusetts state elections are still a year away, but Republican candidates are already looking to 1990 as their best chance in decades to steal major state offices from the seemingly invincible Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other key offices are optimistic that the new decade could end an era in which their party has played a small role. Democrats, on the other hand, are fighting to save their reputations--tarnished by the state's fiscal crisis--and preserve a...