Press Conference on January 26, Outside Park Street T Station to Support Passage of HB 851 BOSTON, Jan.

By Darrell Laurant, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va. Jul. 21--Like those whining cicadas that emerge every few summers to assault our eardums, the political ads are coming. Prepare yourself -- it's a presidential year.

By JIM KUHNHENN By Jim Kuhnhenn The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA For more than three decades, the National Governors Association has assembled on presidential election years as one of its members made a bid for the White House - a Carter or a Reagan, a Dukakis, a Clinton or a Bush.

By Michael Medved A s standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama has ended the white-male monopoly on presidential nominations while extending recent domination by an even smaller, more elite minority -- holders of Yale and Harvard degrees.

By Carley Dryden "I'm Kitty Dukakis and I'm a drug addict and an alcoholic." So reads the opening line of the former Massachusetts first lady's debut book, "Now You Know," published in 1992.