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...former Secretary of State James Baker will also soon decide to forgo the race. ``It's the incredible shrinking field,'' says William Kristol, a top Republican strategist. ``Others could still jump in, but we probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors. The wild card: Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...former Education secretaries, Republicans William Bennett and Lamar Alexander, say the Cabinet department should be abolished and its work left to the states and communities. "Most federal programs can be done elsewhere," said Bennett, who headed Education under President Reagan. Alexander, who held the post in the Bush Administration and plans to run for president in 1996, suggested a deregulated, locally-run education system composed of charter schools. The two addressed a conference sponsored in part by Empower America, the conservative politcal group that Bennett co-chairs...
...almost seems as if everyone on the 1974 list has run for President at one time or another. Jerry Brown made the roster, and his presidential bids came in 1976 and 1980 and again in 1992. Former Governor of Florida Reuben Askew ran in 1984, and Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, looks like he's trying for the 1996 G.O.P. nomination. Pete du Pont, the ex-Governor of Delaware, challenged Bush in the primaries in 1988, as did Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate...
Senior linebacker Bill Forlano was also honored at the banquet as the winner of the Lamar Award. The Lamar Award is a pocket watch that goes to a player who has made a unique commitment to the Harvard team...
Split end Mark Cote and defensive back David St. Peter shared the William Paine LaCroix Trophy, its first co-winners ever. Also, defensive end Doug Anderson won the Robert F. Kennedy award, and linebacker Bill Forlano garnered the Henry N. Lamar Award...