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Kraus, the former administrative dean for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), has been a state senator from Arlington for the past eight years. And now, he is making a bid to take over the office of state treasurer...
...former Senator George A. Bachrach puts it, "It's quite unusual that you find someone so well matched for a particular job. I mean. God forbid that someone with a Ph.D in economics be a state treasurer...
...Governor Evelyn Murphy, a Democratic frontrunner with former attorney general Francis X. Bellotti, is seen as the candidate closest to Dukakis, whom Democrats and Republicans alike have blamed for the state's fiscal situation...
...President's greatest achievement has been to increase discipline in his 65,000-man army, which includes former rebel troops. Says a Kampala businessman: "Gone are the days when you had to hide your car from greedy soldiers and carry cash in your pockets to pay them off when they stopped you." Amnesty International reported that although there are still problems of torture and arbitrary detention, "the army is more subject to the law now than at any time in the last 20 years...
Yellowstone can seem grand and wild, or it can resemble a big, hokey theme park, an example of what happens when man meddles too much with nature. Policies shift with political winds, and under former National Park Service director William Penn Mott, a wolf enthusiast, Yellowstone officials pushed hard for the wolf's reintroduction. Now Mott has been replaced by fence-sitter James Ridenour, and political pressure is reaching Yellowstone. Two weeks ago, a traveling Park Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year...