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...appointment of Margaret H. Marshall to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court by Governor William F. Weld '66 leaves vacant the position of Harvard vice president and general counsel. The University has commenced a search for candidates to fill the spot, and the process might be completed within the next four months...
...Politically, the state seems marked by equally sharp peaks and valleys: the first state to enact term limits for state representatives in 1990, in 1992 it approved Measure 2, which rescinded state and local laws banning discrimination against gays. In this election, two House races will fill seats left vacant by long-time Representatives--Patricia Schroeder in the First and the Fourth's Wayne Allard, who is leaving to run for the Senate. That Senate seat is vacant as well, and both Allard and Democrat Tom Strickland have legitimate hopes of filling...
...chairman of Chicago's Housing Committee, Gutierrez once sold vacant lots to developers for a buck. But in Washington his flair has been muted by the Republican majority, which defeated such proposals as allowing abortions in veterans' hospitals and the funding of anticrime efforts by local housing authorities. The September withdrawal of Republican Tomas Mendoza has assured Gutierrez an easy victory...
Smith suffered a narrow loss in a January special election to fill the vacant Senate seat of Bob Packwood, who left under a cloud of scandal. In this bitter race, Smith has accused Tom Bruggere of hiring a San Francisco private-investigation firm to "dig dirt." Smith has tempered some of his more conservative positions for this race, but in a state that has elected moderate Senators for the past 30 years, the winner here should still be a moderating influence on Capitol Hill...
...years since being elected to fill Al Gore's vacant Senate seat, Thompson's star has risen quickly. He sees himself as a "citizen Senator" and has tremendous populist appeal, both because of his acting background and because his legislative priorities reflect such sensibility: term limits, campaign-finance and juvenile-court reforms, and biannual budgets for Congress. With this style, Thompson is one Senate incumbent who can run as an outsider...