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Confirming rampant rumors that he was headed to Houston, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen resigned today. Named to replace him was longtime Wall Streeter and Clinton economic advisor Robert Rubin. Bentsen said he wanted to return to Texas to spend more time with his children and grandchildren and "return to the private sector . . . while I still had a spring in my step." Bentsen -- who leaves in two weeks -- served in the Senate for 22 years and ran as vice president in 1988 on the ticket headed by Michael Dukakis.His replacement, currently head of Clinton's National Economic Council, spent nearly three...
...that's all very well. It would, indeed, be excellent if President Rudenstine could make that call, or appear, pope-like, at that window. Excellent not only because it would set the rampant speculation than about his condition to rest, but also because it would mean that he is making progress medically...
Both on campus and off, speculation has been rampant as to Rudenstine's condition...
Speculation is rampant as to the nature of the president's affliction. But a Boston Globe report yesterday quoted Rudenstine's family as saying the mysterious illness is nothing more than fatigue...
...Gore had just been read some of the letters he wrote during his years at Harvard. The letters, recently published in the New Yorker, were not all that remarkable for a student writing home in the late-1960s, a mish-mash of misplaced idealism and rampant cynicism about the U.S. Government...