Word: takano
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Claiming his Harvard education enlightened him, Mark A. Takano '83 has turned Democrat to seek a congressional seat in Southern California's upcoming elections...
...Takano, a Republican throughout college, now finds himself the Democratic contender in a closely paired race for the 43rd congressional district of Riverside County...
...whole family is Republican and I was a Republican all the way through college," Takano said. "But my Harvard education really had an impact. It truly made me smarter. I became a Democrat," he said...
...Takano said he bucked the trend of the 1980s, when more and more college students adopted the Republican platform...
Impersonally though the tides of history may seem to flow, they now waited on one man, a remarkably squat and broad-shouldered man, no more than 5 ft. 3 in. tall. He had been born Isoroku Takano, the first name meaning 56, because that was the age at which his proud father had been presented with his sixth and last son. Later adopted, according to an old custom, into a richer family, he acquired a new name: Yamamoto...