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Dukakis will leave the State House for good inJanuary after eight years as Governor. He said,however, that he wouldn't let his lame duck statusslow his commitment to doing his work, and addedthat he didn't want the next governor to findthings in chaos, the way he did twice whenassuming the helm...
...popularity and state budget may be anemic. But when the lame-duck Governor was asked whether he would ever run for President again, he said, "I don't think you rule it out, I don't think you rule it in." Retorted comic Jay Leno: "I hear he's already working on his concession speech...
...expect President Derek C. Bok to be a lame duck this year just because he's announced his intention to resign in June. Although Newsweek's conventional-wisdom gurus called him "Harvard's own Gerald Ford," Bok's low public profile can be very deceiving. He's no A. Bartlett Giamatti, which some people may regret, but he's no John Silber either, which makes every-one happy...
...spending cuts and new revenues that will hold the 1991 deficit to the $64 billion mandated by the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law. They are even talking of putting off a budget agreement -- and the announcement of new "revenue enhancements" that it might entail -- until a lame-duck session of Congress begins, conveniently, after the November elections. "The tough choices have been avoided for ten years," laments California Democrat Leon Panetta, chairman of the House Budget Committee. "There's never a good time...
ALAN CRANSTON (up for re-election in 1992). The California Democrat is considered not only a lame duck but a dead duck. An aide concedes, "He won by only 3% last time. He's never been a good...