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...Massachusetts Senate approved a bill yesterday to authorize Patrick to appoint an interim Senator until a permanent successor can be chosen by special election. In what was seen as an effort to bolster Democratic efforts to pass a health-care reform package, Kennedy requested in the weeks before his death that the state legislature act to amend the law to allow for an interim successor to be put in place immediately after his death...
Senator Kennedy’s successor will serve until a permanent replacement is selected during a Jan. 19 special election...
Patrick is expected to announce his decision sometime today or tomorrow, according to media reports, but the decision seems to still be pending. The Governor’s office issued a statement yesterday denying that a successor has been chosen...
...occur - the guard dog that didn't bark on the night of the murder. At the characteristically secretive Plenum, the equivalent clue into the mystery of who will be China's next leader was the fact that Xi Jinping, the man widely touted as the most likely successor to President Hu Jintao, was not appointed deputy chairman of the Military Commission...
...fresh from her first appearance before the Supreme Court—appeared before a rapturous crowd at the Law School on Friday where she described her recent experiences in Washington and was lauded by her HLS colleagues. Kagan, the current solicitor general, appeared on a panel with her successor as Dean, Martha L. Minow; Professor Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General under President Reagan; and Professor John F. Manning ’82, who worked in the solicitor general’s office in the early 1990s. Kagan’s Law School colleagues all praised her work and sought...