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...Money may not be the only problem for the former Clinton justice department official. The other Beacon Hill hopefuls are all rapidly claiming the race’s political middle ground. Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey ’82 began distancing herself from current Republican Governor Mitt Romney back in December, when she announced her support for a law requiring all hospitals to offer emergency contraception for rape victims. Romney had earlier vetoed the law. Reilly has also started competing for the moderate label, announcing in December that he was supporting a reduction of the state income...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Patrick ’78 Lays Out Vision for Bay State | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

Even students who do not venture off Harvard campus feel the impact of state government policies. The Cambridge Common has been the site of molestations, causing an outburst of student activism for more blue-light phones, which were installed. Now, Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney’s budget for 2007 lowers funding for urban parks like Cambridge Common, to levels that are 33 percent below 2001 levels. Harvard’s proposed expansion to Allston? Mass. governmental bodies will leave a significant imprint on how the project as a whole is completed, from zoning laws to labor regulations. A large...

Author: By Robert D. Winikates | Title: State Politics Matter Regardless of Home State | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

...Helgen. The week will conclude with “Walk Dat Ass,” when students will walk Boston’s Freedom Trail. While Barrios said he thinks Republican candidate and current Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey ’82 will distance herself from current governor Republican Mitt Romney, he said Democrats “will try to paint Kerry Healey and Romney with the same brush.” Barrios, who led a gay rights group when he was at Harvard, also criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barrios Speaks to Students | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...State an official visit. On the screen, a spiffy blue and white jet dubbed the “Spirit of America” landed and, flanked by numerous officials in suits and somber State Troopers flaunting crisp, fresh-pressed uniforms, its door unfurled. Was the President of Zambia paying Mitt Romney a visit? Was Pope Benedict in the plane? I waited in rapt anticipation for the individual deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine my surprise when suddenly at the door appeared a miserable and rather mousy-looking man, shackled at the wrists and ankles and with...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein, | Title: Blowing the Whistle | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...Agency's no- warrant surveillance program could come under the authority of a special court, while at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican chairman Arlen Specter continued to raise questions about the program's legality. "You cannot have domestic search-and-seizure without a warrant," Specter said. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney publicly criticized Bush for the failures of the hugely expensive Medicare prescription-drug plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Thousand and Sixty-Five Days To Go | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

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