Word: michigan
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Three years ago, when Michael McConnell first decided to become a law professor, he began searching for a school at which to teach. He looked at Stanford, Yale, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago, but he didn't look at Harvard...
...commission also counts among its membersthe presidents of a wide varity of colleges,including New York University, Michigan StateUniversity, the University of California, St.Lawrence and Trinity College...
Robertson was on a roll last week. In the straw poll in Ames, he scored an upset that left the Iowa campaign of George Bush reeling. In Michigan, he easily won a procedural vote that solidified his lead in that state's convoluted delegate-selection process. And in Chesapeake, Va., he announced that he had collected the 3 million signatures he insisted were necessary to persuade him to run for the presidency. Having grossed $10 million in contributions, Robertson is no longer just a fringe factor. Republicans now must ask, What does Robertson really represent...
...issue last week before the state's party central committee was whether to enlarge the pool of precinct delegates by nearly 1,200 party regulars, most of them Bush supporters. The committee decisively voted against the Bush position, making it likely that Robertson will win the most delegates in Michigan...
These days there are no fund-raising letters with his name, like those that appeared a year ago following his victory in the Michigan precinct-level delegate elections, declaring "The Christians have won!" He emphasizes tolerance, denying vehemently a quote attributed to him that only born-again Christians and Jews should hold Government jobs. But he volunteers in an interview that nonbelievers would have no place in a Robertson Administration because "I don't think that atheists have their act together...