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Hoping to calm them, White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles early last week called and apologized to both Gephardt and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle for failing to consult them on either the Medicare plan or the President's choice of Colorado Governor Roy Romer as the new party chairman. Bowles promised he would meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight...
...ROMER'S ODYSSEY...
Colorado Governor ROY ROMER's countrymen had to lend him more than their ears on his trip to Los Angeles and Washington to discuss his new job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. After boarding his flight, Romer discovered he'd left his wallet in the car. "I didn't have a nickel on me," says Romer, who had to do a bit of quick-draw fund raising. His seatmate, Bruce Brannon, loaned him $45, but he figured he'd need more. "So I walked down the aisles looking for the first guy who showed a flicker of recognition...
...made it very clear to schools that we were a package," Romer says. "That surely limited the number of schools that wanted us, but we've been very happy at the schools that wanted...
...think that if in the course of recruiting it's taken seriously from the beginning it can be either an enormous draw or it can be an impediment and ultimately trip up and make impossible recruitment," Galison says.Economists Christina D. and David Romer (Top) have recently been recruited by the Kennedy School from the University of California at Berkeley. The husband-and-wife team decided some time ago that they come as a package. Joseph P. McCarthy (Right) is an assistant dean of the Faculty who has networked connections at Harvard and in the greater Boston area to find professional...