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12-5 BUILT. AS 7 areas. Friday, for Hl.V-' STRONG, GOOD-LOOKING, VI WELL hi' If NO WONDER SO MANY PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO IT. Another Vs. Yale AS NEW ENG-landers, we like to say that education is our advantage.

Nationally, one way we stay relevant is by schooling the nation's leaders. Consider: If you're willing to call George H. W. Bush a Texan rather than a Nut-megger or a Mainer, there hasn't been an Oval Office nominee who was New England born and raised since JFK was elected more than 40 years ago. But as for alumni sons? Well, in the last quarter century or so, we can count both Presidents Bush, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford.

Close collegiate observers may notice a trend here: They are all Yalies. Both Bushes have an undergraduate degree from Yale (though George W. also has an MBA from Harvard Business School), while Ford and Clinton hold law degrees from Yale. Certainly, if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders 45 Maple St. 978-774-0277 www.cf-tompkins.com Triple dra wer guides, tove fa7 crass rails and drawers so strong we not only stand behind them, we stand in them.

For three generations, people have turned to us for fine furniture and exceptional service and prices. '4 STICKLEY SALE NOW INPROGRESS While New England hasn't produced a US president in decades, its top schools have educated several Oval Office winners and contenders. over the past three decades, it's Yale. Still, because this is a Boston column, let's start with a tip of the tassel to the college across the river. When it comes to seeing its graduates on major party tickets for national office, Harvard, which placed its first alumnus with the election of John Adams as vice president in 1789, remains the overall leader.

Its graduates or onetime students have been on the ticket in 28 of the 54 elections, or 51.8 percent of the time, says Garrison Nelson, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont and a visiting professor at 1 1 960 WASHINGTON STREET. DEDHAM 78 1-380-3880 820 SO. MAIN ST. (RT. 114) MIDDLETON 978-7 7 7-9 1 94 MONDAY 10-9 TUESDAY-SATURDAY 10-8 SUNDAY U-S jtkthf in IhaBfraa' rata 6.