Word: gov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noble responds that her freshness on the city's political scene gives her an advantage. "The way Cambridge folks attack one another, I consider it an asset to be above the fray," she says. "The wrath of the voter that ushered in [Gov. William F. Weld '66] is still very much alive in Cambridge...
...difficult to figure out who's responsible for politics' vanilla flavor. Those self-important Cross Pen/paisley tie/hair gel gov jocks sucking your section leader's posterior become politicians when they grow up. And if you don't believe me, you didn't attend the IOP schmoozefest at Winthrop House last year, when undergraduates were introduced to the House of Representatives' newly elected members. As conversationalists, these Congressional airheads ranked slightly behind CPA's and slightly ahead of dead people...
...could blame Jack? He could have cast his ballot for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, a perfectly nice Harvard Law School graduate with crash test dummy charisma. (A compelling comparison, no?) Or he could have supported the candidacy of Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush of Andover, Yale and the Sy Sperling Inspirational Speech Club for Men. Or he could have stayed home to rearrange his sock drawer, twiddle his thumbs and watch candlepin bowling. You make the call...
Finneran said higher taxes still are not an option for the Legislature, and not just because of Republican Gov. William F. Weld's opposition to them...
...bureaucrat--whom Gov. William F. Weld '66 declared his "favorite employee on the state payroll," received a $10,000 bonus. Go figure...