POR99020402 - 4 FEBRUARY, 1999 - PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA: Former governor of Tennessee and U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander reads a clippng from the New York Times that he said lauded him for his hard work campaigning for the presidency. Alexander, who will formally announce he is running for president later in the year, was speaking at the Portsmouth Rotary Club Luncheon on 4 February at Yoken's Conference Center in Portsmouth. lkm/rw/Lee K. Marriner UPI