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-- Paul Volcker: The former Federal Reserve chairman, famous for taming inflation, is the odds-on favorite. Volcker's selection (especially in combination with Alice Rivlin, the leading contender for Budget Director) would calm financial markets worried about Clinton's commitment to reduce the deficit. But transition insiders are concerned that...
Keohane, who was on the medium list for theHarvard presidency and is widely considered theleading female contender for any universitypresidency, would not comment on the search.
Lamar Not A Contender
The apparent front runner for 1996 is Kemp, who ran poorly in the 1988 primaries but won a straw poll of National Committee members at the G.O.P. Convention in Houston this year. Nonetheless, Quayle remains a contender for the nomination because he has spent the past four years crisscrossing the...
Playoff Watch: Harvard's top contender for supermacy in the ECAC, Clarkson, took a fall last night, as Vermont dumped the fifth-ranked Golden Knights, 3-2.