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...Kennedy '40 set off for the White House in 1961, there were those who remembered that his grandfather, the legendary Mayor "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, wouldn't have deigned to move to Washington--not wanting to putter around the South when there was work to be done back in the Hub of the Universe...
...plates in the Yard would still continue, proctors and upper class students should continue to accompany the new students on a trip into the city. It would give first-years a better understanding of their surroundings and encourage them to take advantage of the cultural offerings that the Hub presents. Above all, in all the excitement of their first week of college life, students should be urged to think of themselves as citizens of a larger, urban community...
Yesterday, the Irish Women's National Basketball team hit the Hub as part of its 11-day barnstorming trip through New England...
...Early staffing decisions that will set the tone of the Administration. Two key appointments: chief of staff, which will signal whether Clinton will follow a top-down or hub-of-the-wheel governing style; and Treasury Secretary, which must be someone who can reassure both financial markets and the Federal Reserve that Clinton will exercise discipline as he pursues economic reform...
...fear Clinton will follow Roosevelt and reject a White House system that revolves around a strong chief of staff -- even if the President-elect permits someone to have the title. F.D.R. preferred what political scientists describe as a "spokes of a wheel" structure that had the President at the hub. Carter too tried a "spokes" arrangement for the first two years of his term. Jack Watson (who was Carter's last chief of staff) has described the disaster that ensued. Carter "wished to know the pros and cons and the ins and the outs of every issue," Watson said...