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...editors: Re “President Romney?” news, Dec 16: Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s announcement not to seek re-election because he had accomplished what he promised is preposterous. Let’s face facts: Gov. Romney is an ambitious man with a mixed record of political achievement who knows he is unlikely to win another statewide election which would scuttle his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Despite three years on Beacon Hill, the governor remains a shrewd businessman and remembers how to hedge his bets. The governor?...
...bemoaned the Square’s loss of character. Unfortunately these foolish people fail to realize that the one thing worse than no restaurants, shops, or clubs is ATM fees.2. December 26. Some may have thought that the last vestiges of Puritanism in Massachusetts were repealed when Mormon Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill allowing for Sunday alcohol sales. They were wrong. The law still prohibits selling on Monday if Christmas is on Sunday. All of you who stayed in the Bay State over the break are suckers. Watch out for December 26, 2011. You’d better stock...
...most recent graduating class took jobs as public employees, many of the school’s alums now hold high-ranking government posts—including President George W. Bush, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao, and Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney...
...debate. The problem is not a lack of differing views amongst IOP-goers but rather the lack of a specific forum for expressing them. This can give the Institute the feel of a cosy Democratic club. The success of events that challenge the majority view, such as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s visit to Adam Nagourney’s study group, is a testament to the need for more open political argument...
...through his long career, a great eye for the telling detail and the humorous, often incongruous anecdote that illuminated the humanity of the powerful. I loved watching him regale a group with tales of everything from Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower to the old Yale baseball mitt that the first President Bush kept in his desk in the Oval Office. People-important people, ordinary people-liked to tell Hugh things. He was trustworthy and fair-minded, and they could sense that. For all his time in Washington, Hugh never lost touch with his roots in Iowa and kept...