Word: politician
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Quayle's mission was most useful in broadening the horizons of an insular young politician whose horizons until recently did not reach much beyond Indiana. During the campaign, Quayle bragged about the foreign leaders he knew, but those were chiefly from the NATO allies and Israel. In the rest of the world, he has many people to meet and much to master before he can be trusted to venture beyond a carefully prepared script. On last week's tour Quayle persuaded at least a few observers that he might be up to the task. As his official plane flew back...
...supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign, but on a different level, many Americans have clearly not come to terms with legalized killing. Politicians are not distinguishing themselves by the way they face this moral dilemma...
...personal beliefs, Governor Roemer will make that decision in a political framework. Beyond grappling with the haunting question "Did he do it?," the Governor will, inescapably, weigh the political fallout either way he goes. Once again, a capital case and a person's fate will be determined by a politician with a partisan agenda. In 1984 North Carolina Governor James Hunt was waging a fierce battle for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jesse Helms. Meanwhile, another political battle was raging. Velma Barfield, a matronly grandmother convicted of murdering her fiance while under the influence of drugs, was scheduled...
...year ago, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis campaigned across the country touting the "Massachusetts Miracle." Aides to powerful Senate President William M. Bulger, a Democrat, were quietly talking about a campaign for state-wide office. And no rational politician dared make designs on the Governor's office. Suddenly, all of that has changed...
With Richard Thornburgh's appointment as attorney general, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) is also in the midst of searching for a new director. British politician Shirley Williams is serving as acting director until a search committee--composed of Kennedy School faculty and outside politicians--makes its recommendations to Allison later this spring...