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...dormitories affected include Greenough, Hollis, Stoughton, Thayer and Weld, and the first floor of Canaday, according to a note distributed to the affected students...
...Governor Weld is now Citizen Weld after resigning his post to (unsuccessfully) face-off with Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) over his nomination by President Clinton to the Ambassadorship to Mexico. The charming, intelligent and popular New Englander was quickly shown the door by the poster-boy for the conservative agenda. Remarkably, the steamrollering of this one-time G.O.P. rising star by Helms generated only an outcry of deafening silence from his fellow Republicans in control of the Senate. This Capitol Hill embarrassment comes within a year of his failed attempt to unseat incumbent Senator John Kerry (D-Mass...
...Weld, in his desire for a change of scenery from Beacon Hill, chose his battles foolishly. In the race with Kerry, he was never able to persuade predominantly-Democratic Massachusetts voters to remove a popular Governor from office to replace a relatively popular Senator (and help pad the Republican congressional majority in the process). As for his nomination fight, he learned that the U.S. Senate-with its powerful privileges for committee chairpeople-is a poor battleground to fight for the soul of the G.O.P., especially considering that Helms and his followers had no incentive to help what they view...
...real question, though, remains: What are the consequences of the poor judgment of Wilson, Weld and Whitman for the "silent majority" of moderate Republicanism...
...Whitman loses and Weld and Wilson no longer take active roles in national politics, the damage will manifest itself in two areas. Their absence from the national scene will deny moderate Republicans the proof they need to believe that their brand of candidate can win and govern effectively. And the fate of the 2000 nomination will remain even more firmly in the hands of the conservative Religious Right...