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...Fame, and it may have been at work again last week. The New Jersey Democrat announced that he will retire at the end of next year from the Senate, where he has spent a third of his 52 years, and that he is weighing the idea of making a bid for the White House as an independent candidate. That alone would have been enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying to get in touch with Ross Perot, all sides were hit with...
Just four days afterShannon Faulknerleft the Citadel to jeers from her male classmates, another woman is planning a bid to enter the exclusive club. "A Citadel degree has a certain cachet in South Carolina," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It provides a very easy entry into certain jobs and there's a huge network, a power core of Citadel men in state society." The woman's identity will remain secret until Wednesday, when attorneys add her name to Faulkner's suit to join the all-male cadet program.Faulkner's lawyerstell Towle that two other young women had expressed interest...
...neighbors, formed the Anderson Field Alliance to block the move and attempt to raise $8 million to buy and preserve the land, an effort that is stalled in city bureaucracy. In Douglas County, Colorado, a fast-growing Denver exurb, some locals have formed the Pinery Coalition to oppose a bid by the Great Gulf Group of Companies to build houses on a pine-studded local hillside and potentially raise the number of residences from 1,900 to 2,700. "My kids are already in full classes," frets Brenda Mason, a spokeswoman for the local homeowners' association. "There's no place...
DIED. GEORGE ROMNEY, 88, three-term G.O.P. Governor of Michigan; in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Romney's 1968 presidential bid gave up the ghost before the first primary, haunted by his assertion that his earlier support of the Vietnam War was due to "brainwashing" by the U.S. military...
...making his first bid for Cambridge city office...