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While many would claim that the president-elect??s crack team of advisors and strategists convinced him long ago that winning in Pennsylvania would be the key to taking it all, a more likely scenario plays out like this...
...rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies William P. Alford, who met Ma when the two were students at the Law School some 30 years ago, recognized the historical nature of the president-elect??s mandate. “This particular person in this particular point in history is very exciting in determining what the best relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan should be,” he said. “He has the opportunity to be a really historic figure...
Although Patrick’s background is a testament to his leadership potential, it is the governor-elect??s bold and forward-thinking agenda that sets him apart. The only gubernatorial candidate to oppose cutting state income taxes—an action which would further strain municipalities with already taut budgets and place an unfair tax burden on those with less fluid assets—Patrick has argued instead for redirecting funds to combat inflated housing costs, improve public education, and strengthen public transit across the state...
Patrick’s freshman year roommate, Greg M. Lipshutz ’78, who is now an instructor in neurology at the Harvard Medical School, was also struck by the future governor-elect??s character...
...problem is that for most voters, the question they were posed at the polls did not extend much further than “to elect or not elect??—to no fault of their own. Bush did not campaign on any substantive platform. He vowed to “revamp” the tax code and make it simpler and more efficient. He vowed to “finish the job” in Iraq. He vowed to stand for good ol’ American values. But unfortunately none of those things give Bush license...