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...Mass. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci awaits final confirmation as President Bush's ambassador to Canada, Lt. Gov. Jane Swift is poised to take the reins as acting governor of the commonwealth...
Cellucci's departure could rearrange the political landscape of Beacon Hill, according to an article in The Boston Globe. Democrats will have a chance to score policy victories against Swift, whose political reputation is already suffering...
...most accounts, Swift has endured a difficult term as lieutenant governor and has a current approval rating of only 17 percent...
Earlier in her term, critics blasted Swift when she had government employees baby-sit her child and used a state helicopter for a personal trip to avoid Thanksgiving traffic. Swift was subsequently fined for the transgressions...
Sitting in her apartment just days after her husband's murder, Valori does not cry. Her calm and even cheery demeanor puzzles her local friends, as does her desire that Gong?who will almost certainly face a swift execution by firing squad?be spared the death penalty. "In China, widows cry and scream for revenge for weeks," says one of Bruce's colleagues, who started attending church several years ago. "But Mrs. Morrison just sits and reads the Bible." Equally surprising is Valori's desire to remain in China. "I have spent all my married life here," she says...