Word: iop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Democrat Hubert "Skip" Humphrey lost the Minnesota Governor's race to Jesse "The Body" Ventura, his next stop was Harvard, where he joined the Institute of Politics (IOP) as a Fellow last spring...
Although the IOP attracts Fellows from a variety of fields, Humphrey wasn't the first prominent election loser to come to the Kennedy School of Government...
Former Mass. Governor Michael Dukakis took a professorship at the KSG after he lost to George Bush in 1988. Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984, came as an IOP fellow in 1988, four years after her election loss...
...Some IOP and KSG officials say these prominent cases have given them a reputation as a place where electoral non-winners can land softly...
...goal is to bridge the gap between community service and public policy," said Rebecca C. Hardiman '01, the IOP's Community Action Committee Chair. "We try to get people out to see the political situation in Boston and the opportunities for community service that exist...