Word: swifts
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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...
Summers has strong academic and political credentials. An academic superstar, he received his doctorate in economics from Harvard and at 28 became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard history. His rise to the post of Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration was equally swift and marked with success. A major participant in the Mexican bailout, he is a respected thinker on issues of globalization. Though Summers is well-connected in Washington, there is little indication that undergraduate education is his primary interest. And while he has a broad view of education from a global perspective, his views on specific issues...
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...