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Harold Bohtho of Monash University in Australia has been offered a tenured position in pre modern Japanese history, said Department Chairman Edwin A. Cranston...
...next three or four years, Cranston added, the department will undertake a tenure search to replace Professor of Chinese and Central Asian History Joseph J. Fletcher Jr. '57, who died this summer...
Normally, any Republican candidate for Governor in the resolutely Democratic state of Rhode Island would be considered rash even to run. But Edward DiPrete, the stolid two-term G.O.P. mayor of Cranston, R.I., is facing extraordinary circumstances. An unusually bitter Democratic primary has split his opposition, while statewide disillusionment with government may have opened a door for long-frustrated Republicans. For the first time in 16 years, the G.O.P. has a shot at the statehouse...
Solomon, an assiduous handshaker, likes to point to his experience as an administrator. DiPrete is running on his record as mayor of a sound city. When he took office in 1979 in Cranston, DiPrete inherited a $5.3 million cumulative debt, which he erased while raising taxes only once. Whenever possible, however, DiPrete reminds voters of the Democrats' tarnished record, insisting that "the public has lost faith in state institutions...
...congressional districts. Rather than simply selecting their preferred candidate, voters will have to mark their ballots for up to eight delegates (who will have in parentheses next to their names the candidate to whom they are pledged). This system was deliberately designed to boost the chances of Senator Alan Cranston, on the theory that nearly all the state's well-known Democratic politicians would run as delegates pledged to him. After Cranston dropped out of the race, most of the pols with recognizable names switched to Mondale. The system offers a chance for a big sweep: the most popular...