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Well, it's official. Harvard University president Larry Summers, much derided for his less-than-politic relationship with the African-American Studies Department women in science academics and administrators in general everyone and their cousin, will do a Marie St. Fleur effective June 30. This comes as the faculty was poised to take its second vote of no-confidence in Summers in less than a year on Feb. 28. The vote of the faculty has no direct effect on who leads Harvard, but the Harvard Corporation, which does make the call, is wisely wary of having too unruly a work force on its hands, or of losing more top scholars.

OK, not really. In another one of those completely unsurprising developments that Bostonist feels obliged to mention, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey has officially announced what everyone already knew: She will be running for Governor.

Remember when Tom Reilly was just a run-of-the-mill, blowhard, establishment Democrat whose judgment we were starting to question because he used his office to do favors for friends (and possibly interfere with a criminal investigation along the way)? Bostonist does, and man, those were the days. Yesterday, when revelations of Marie St. Fleur's financial problems came to the fore, Bostonist was still willing to suppose that the AG could pull this thing out with a little creative spin. St. Fleur, apparently, did not have so much confidence, so the Lieutenant-Governor-candidate-for-a-day withdrew. Bringing Reilly back to where he started, except worse.

Boy oh boy, AG Reilly's campaign for governor gets each day. First, there was the whole brouhaha over his calls to Worcester County DA John Conte to keep the wraps on details of a fatal car crash involving the daughters of one of Reilly's friends. Then Reilly surprised everyone yesterday by jilting Chris Gabrieli and Worcester Mayor Tim Murray and choosing Dorchester State Rep. Marie St. Fleur as his running mate. This morning, Bostonist learns from the papers (well, the Globe, anyway; we would have figured the Herald would be all over this) that St. Fleur is in a whole mess of financial trouble - she owes back taxes and student loans. This last revelation, though, might not be so bad for team Reilly as it first appears.

on-a-losing-ticket sort of way." Then someone in the hardworking Reilly campaign juggernaut must have said, "Hey, what if Boston voters and minority voters really do turn out in droves for the primary? Maybe people who are already fed up with having a conservative, out-of-town, rich white guy as their governor won't cotton to an all-white, moderate ticket with a rich guy and a guy from Springfield." So Gabrieli is out and Dorchester State Rep. (and former A.D.A. and Assistant Attorney General) Marie St. Fleur gets the nod.