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...done throughout the campaign and his six years on Beacon Hill, Weld stressed the need to cut taxes, get tough on crime and reform welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerry Mingles With Pols; Weld With Fans | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...have a store of patience the size of her native Texas, finally may have had enough of husband MICK JAGGER's wandering ways. She has hired Anthony Julius, Princess Diana's divorce lawyer. Exactly what she intends Julius to do, if anything more than act as a human warning beacon, is unclear. Her ire was aroused when Jagger was reportedly seen embracing Uma Thurman in one bar and model Jana Rajlich in another. The singer, reputedly Britain's 145th richest man, has three young children with Hall, two children with other amours and two grandchildren. But sometimes granddads need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 1996 | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...fact that race didn't seem to matter in this instance. If The Crimson wanted to celebrate such an event, it could have done it in a much less ambiguous fashion. Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that in a racially divided society, this election represents a beacon of racial harmony. Here's a better lead of my own creation along those lines, "Despite the fact that in the United States black churches are being burned at an alarming rate, at least for Harvard undergraduates race didn't matter in the recent class marshal elections...

Author: By Shawn Zeller, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

Weld has trouble fighting the perception that he wants to go to Washington because he's bored on Beacon Hill. "Right now, the fights that matter most...are in another arena--Congress," he said when he announced in November 1995. He was still happy then to declare himself Newt Gingrich's "ideological soul mate," a statement Kerry highlights every chance he gets. Weld counters by trying to tag Kerry as a liberal, as if that were a deadly liability in a state whose other Senator is Ted Kennedy. The Governor has hit his opponent hard for voting to protect disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOOD FIGHT | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...national chain CompUSA has an outlet nearby (Corner of N. Beacon and Market St., Brighton), but I would steer clear if you're looking for quality systems. CompUSA's prices are rock-bottom, but the machines they sell--IBM Aptivas, Compaq Presarios, and Packard Bells--are all designed for the home market, not a college dorm. These computers may seem like good deals in the short-run, but you may have problems expanding them in the long term...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

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