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Does Bok’s return as a short-termer mean that all the reforms Summers initiated will now be put on hold? I don’t see why that should be the case. From what I can tell (mostly from reading The Crimson and talking to my old professors and current undergrads), there’s more consensus around what needs to be done than all the headlines about Harvard In Turmoil would suggest. If Bok can capitalize on his reservoir of personal good will with the faculty and deep knowledge of academic governance to make everyone feel...
...Democrats are going to take back the House, they need to win in places like Iowa's First District. Republican six-termer Jim Nussle has a big lead in the money-raising game. But the Dems have an impressive challenger in Ann Hutchinson, who hopes to become the first woman Iowans have ever sent to Congress...
...movement so seduced the G.O.P. Conservative stalwarts Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas have decided to yield their Senate seats after 2002, and strategists fear a wave of retirement notices in the next few months. Possible departures include Senator Pete Domenici, a five-termer from New Mexico, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, the other Texas Senator and a new adoptive mom. Aides to Alaska's Frank Murkowski have let it be known their boss is weighing a run for Governor, meaning he could leave the Senate next year. And Die Hard 2 alumnus Fred Thompson of Tennessee...
...status of the CCA, Cambridge's more liberal party, which traditionally has fielded four or five spots on the council, is in flux. With Born retiring, there will be only two CCA incumbents running for reelection in November----Henrietta C. Davis and first-termer Jim Braude...
Democrats looking to pick off Senate seats tagged that of Spencer Abraham, a first-termer and Michigan's first G.O.P. Senator in more than 20 years, as their easiest target. The contest turned out to be a squeaker, but two-term Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow finally delivered. Though outspent by nearly 2 to 1, the bubbly Stabenow outshone her often lusterless opponent on the campaign trail and in the debates. Stabenow, 50, who had previously served in the state legislature for 16 years, starting at age 28, campaigned most vigorously on prescription-drug benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham...