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Schotte was Harvard's top finisher at New England's, placing 14th out of 261 runners in a time of 18:37.9. Sophomore Bethany Helms placed 25th in 19:02.1.
But the nomination came under fire from thepowerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relationscommittee, Jesse Helms (R-N.C.).
Helms asserted that Weld's liberal stance onmedicinal marijuana legislation would compromisehis authority in pursuing U.S. action in theso-called drug war in Mexico.
As chair of the committee, Helms blocked thenomination from the docket, despite Weld's thenfull-time lobbying on his own behalf.
"He has a different style. He has done battlewith Jesse Helms. He really is sort of in thetradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880,Nelson Rockefeller, that wing of the Republicanparty," Mahony says. "And he's a maverick."