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...Republicans also picked up the governorship in Kentucky for the first time in more than 30 years. That shouldn't have been too surprising. The current governor had an embarrassing affair with a state contractor and the slogan of governor-elect, Ernie Fletcher, was to "clean up the mess in Frankfort," the state capital. But it was more than local issues at issue in Kentucky. It's a good sign for Bush that both Fletcher and Barbour invited him to the state while national Democrats from Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton to the 10 presidential candidates were kept...
...only comfort for Democrats is that out-of-power parties won big in the 2002 governors races, leading to such bizarre spectacles as Democrats taking the governor's mansions in Wyoming and Oklahoma while Massachusetts elected a Mormon Republican businessman as governor. The Fletcher and Barbour victories were part of a troubling wave for fiscally-challenged governors...
According to Slater, Harvard’s standing among blacks suffered a further setback after former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton in 2002 following a spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that. Sparkling guitars and lightly-brushed cymbals litter the album’s complex compositions, and the smooth delivery from lead singer Tim Fletcher weaves in and out of the guitar lines, evoking something like dark, rainy nights on a highway—or perhaps just early 1986. “Lola Stars and Stripes” features guitar squalls and staccato bleats that reveal the Stills’ influences and their subscription to the current New York school of well-dressed hipsters. “Lola, no, we?...
...been talking too much, I’ve been screaming my beliefs all day,” she explained, laughing. Her appearance at Harvard was her third of the day in the Boston area, following stops at Boston College Law School and the Fletcher School at Tufts University...