Word: governors
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Over the past 40 years, half the states have turned to so-called merit selection for at least some judges. Typically, a judicial "selection committee" nominates several names, the Governor picks one, and the judge runs unopposed on a yes-no "retention ballot" after a year or more. The system can produce a higher quality bench, if politics does not creep back in. "The big problem," says Stanford Law Professor Jack Friedenthal, "is the selection of the selectors...
...probably know, our darling, huggable Governor Eddy King is responsible for raising the drinking age to 20. This will complicate things. If you want to purchase liquor in the state, you must theoretically have either a Mass. Driver's license, of a special Mass. drinking card that will cost you $5, issued by a department headed by one of King's cronies. Most places--except for Father's Six, a townie dive--don't card you unless your voice cracks when you ask for the Wild Turkey, but during Freshman Week places in the Square may be a little more...
...government, is a likely contender for Governor or U.S. Senator in the early 1980s...
...William J. Clinton, 32, is sometimes lampooned in political cartoons in Arkansas as a brat furiously pedaling a tricycle. No one, however, can deny that the nation's youngest Governor is making progress on an uphill path. Instead of cutting taxes, like everyone else, Democrat Clinton persuaded the assembly to raise them by $47 million. With the funds, Clinton will give the public schools their largest rise in state aid in history (20%), increase teachers' salaries (now among the nation's lowest), and improve care for the elderly. A Georgetown and Yale Law School graduate and a Rhodes scholar, Clinton...
DIED. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 88, liberal economist who, as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," masterminded many of the New Deal's reforms; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tugwell was a professor at Columbia University when recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt...