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Harvard increased its lead just seven minutes later after freshman Robin Johnston entered the game. The freshman touched the ball for the first time in her college career, broke through a pair of defenders and fired a shot into the right side...
Babets and Jean filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court in January 1986 challenging the legality of the new DSS rules. The suit named Dukakis, Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston and DSS Commissioner Sandy Matava as defendants, although Dukakis was later dropped as a named defendant...
...Keven McAlester '92 says that it is the academic atmosphere and the metropolitan area that will bring him through the portals of Johnston Gate this September. A native of Dallas, Texas, McAlester says that he has spent a great deal of time in Boston and Cambridge, and felt there was really no way to turn down a chance to live in a different area of the country or to say no to a Harvard education...
...logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- he defeated Johnston for the post in 1985 -- Mitchell has a leg up with the members he helped elect in 1986. Says one Senator: "A lot of those guys are going to think, We're gonna dance with the fella who brung...
This will be the second try at the majority-leader post for Johnston. Elected to the Senate in 1972, Johnston, 55, made an aborted run against Byrd in 1986, when Democrats recaptured the Senate majority they had lost six years earlier. Johnston dropped out of the contest when he realized the awful truth: thanks to a secret ballot, Senators may pledge their troth in advance to more than one candidate. "I thought I had the votes earlier on," he recalls. "But they go like a covey of quail, all flying off in one direction. I saw the first one take...