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...readers know who Madeleine Kunin is? Or Edward DiPrete? Probably not, unless they live in Vermont, where Kunin is running for Governor, or Rhode Island, where DiPrete is also a gubernatorial candidate. They are among six politicians who are featured this week in the first of a series of articles on important local and state races. To give readers an unforgettable visual impression of these individuals, many of whom are not nation ally known, TIME has called upon the U.S.'s premier caricaturist, David Levine. This issue contains his depictions of Kunin and DiPrete, along with spidery portraits...
Normally, any Republican candidate for Governor in the resolutely Democratic state of Rhode Island would be considered rash even to run. But Edward DiPrete, the stolid two-term G.O.P. mayor of Cranston, R.I., is facing extraordinary circumstances. An unusually bitter Democratic primary has split his opposition, while statewide disillusionment with government may have opened a door for long-frustrated Republicans. For the first time in 16 years, the G.O.P. has a shot at the statehouse...
...Colonial League opponents plus seven Ivy counterparts makes nine games. The tenth game is needed for traditional intrastate rivalries. Brown and Yale, for example, annually play for their state championships against the University of Rhode Island and the University of Connecticut...
...Yalta, "lost China" and naively adopted Henry Kissinger's vision of detente. Bush was even once a member of the Trilateral Commission, an Establishment foreign policy organization regarded with deep suspicion by the conspiracy theorists of the far right. Another leading exemplar of the "preppie" group is Rhode Island Senator John Chafee, a former Secretary of the Navy...
...extra feet of snow. But in the 1870s the lake swelled to an alltime high of 4,211.6 ft. above sea level. In 1983, April showers followed an exceptionally snowy winter and led to this year's peak of 4,209.25 ft. Larger in an average year than Rhode Island, the lake has grown by 30%, to 2,250 sq. mi. As one Utah meteorologist puts it, "If you compared it to earthquakes, it would be as if you had a Richter scale from one to ten, and the last two years were...