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No election would be complete without at least one surprise winner who zooms in from left field to capture high office. This time that distinction belongs to Paul Wellstone, a political-science professor from Carleton College, who last week became the only challenger to oust an incumbent Senator. His victim...
Later in the evening, when Silber's defeat was apparent to all, I faced an especially hostile partisan. Standing with a reporter's notebook in hand, I was speaking quietly with a Harvard Silber supporter, waiting for the defeated candidate to appear onstage and deliver his concession speech.
In a limited concession to a recent request by the Undergraduate Council, Harvard College has extended the shuttle bus's weekend hours, but has not yet granted the 24-hour service sought by the council.
"I am very, very concerned about the future of this commonwealth and very concerned about the voter feeling that was demonstrated today," a stunned Keverian said in his concession speech. "And I hope it has ended with this election."
Readers eager to forget the dispiriting 1988 Bush-Dukakis race might be put off by the dust jacket of this book. It promises that would-be First Lady Kitty Dukakis will take us "behind the scenes to show us what it was really like on the national campaign trail." But...