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• Position: City Hall - Kent Koch - Brief article

Kent Koch takes multitasking to a whole d new level. For a good part of the year, the 23-year-old was a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, second baseman for the school's nationally ranked (number 17) N.C.A.A. team--and the mayor of Loretto, his hometown, outside Minneapolis. After a door-to-door campaign in the town of 700 won him 60 percent of the vote last November, Koch (pronounced "coke") juggled term papers and baseball practice with budget briefings, sewer emergencies, and...