Word: gov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alfonse D'Amato will head the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. The New York senator's move is expected to trigger a wave of endorsements for Dole by Gov. George Pataki and other key Republicans in the state. That may give the Senate majority leader a virtual lock on the critically-important New York primary that will deliver 102 GOP delegates one year from today. "Dole has this near obsession with recruiting governors," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. In a recent TIME interview, she adds, Dole said: "Richard Nixon used to say he'd trade...
Republican Gov. George Pataki used the pens of two slain police officers to sign legislation making New York the 38th state with a death penalty. Today's signing ceremony was a major victory for the state legislature, which had 18 straight death penalty bills vetoed by Democratic governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, who was defeated by Pataki in November. The law, which will take effect in September, defines about a dozen offenses punishable by lethal injection, including murders of on-duty cops. It does not apply to juveniles or the mentally disabled. "This law alone won't stop crime...
...DiNatale, a political analyst at theMcCormack Institute for Public Affairs atUniversity of Massachusetts-Boston, said Weld'sdecision not to run will have no impact on localpolitics because he has already handed over manyday-to-day responsibilities to Lieutenant Gov. A.Paul Cellucci...
...every prestigious college has such a program. After all, people at Columbia suffer far more than we do from a system of distributional requirements--like curriculum offering courses at concentration levels. Even if the Core requirement became optional, most students would definitely choose Justice rather than Harvey Mansfield's Gov...
Third, and most important, the Core is cool because we do learn many cool things. After taking Core courses, a math person can feel justified commenting on Shakespeare with English majors, and Gov jocks can bravely discuss concepts like quantum dynamics with future physicists. Now that we all have this shared knowledge, we make more friends than we otherwise would. Just think: a pre-med meets a pre-law for the first time, and it is only natural that they do not give a damn about each other's field. Then what can they talk about, besides "what's your...