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...Gov. William F. Weld '66 is reportedly hoping to nominate Fried to the SJC, following the departure of Justice Joseph R. Nolan, who must leave the court this year upon reaching the mandatory retirement...
Over lunch last week, my friend was telling me how she had just been to Gov Docs and was reading the headlines of The Crimson of 25 years ago for her Vietnam class. She could not stop talking about all the interesting stuff she had read about and the great quality of writing she had seen. She was most impressed with the personal passion and strong conviction with which she felt the writers presented their arguments. We began having a serious discussion about America's role in the Vietnam War, and about the sexual revolution. But that was last week...
...city with one of the state's largest populations on welfare -- may not use its welfare recipients to do sanitation work. The city, which is appealing the verdict, claims that such work conforms with the 20 hours a week of community service incorporated in the "workfare" concept that Mass. Gov. William Weld, House SpeakerNewt Gingrich and other Republicans have embraced. But in cash-strapped Lawrence, a labor union successfully challenged the arrangement, charging that the welfare conscripts are taking jobs from laid-off union members. "It's not going to blow workfare out of the water," says Allis, "but states...
Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
...speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview with TIME editors today,Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a popular GOP social moderate, said that he himself declined to run in part because conservative Republicans swept last November's elections with the center's solid support...