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...city's last major project--the Bradley Center Arena, where the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team plays. When the arena was built 12 years ago, the absence of minority contractors and employees sparked a bitter feud. "No black folks or other people of color got any of that," fumes city alderman Fred Gordon, who feels that even today, minority firms often get just "table scraps...
...basis for homeopathy, but when you look into the eyes of Sailor, a buff-colored nine-year-old Persian mix, you want to believe. Three years ago, Sailor suffered from asthma and diabetes. Heavy-duty drugs had sapped her strength, and conventional vets recommended euthanasia. When her owner, Carley Alderman, brought her to Wynn's office, Sailor could hardly move. Wynn confirmed the diagnosis, then changed Sailor's treatment to a series of homeopathic pellets. The cat rallied. "She runs up and down the stairs," Alderman marvels. "I'm convinced we wouldn't have Sailor with...
...Alderman Richard Mell, this 39-year-old challenger has an advantage that age and experience don't give: a line to Mayor Richard Daley and the Democratic "machine," still a force in Windy City politics. Family ties may have played a role in Blagojevich's primary victory, but the former prosecutor, who talks tough on crime, should also get a boost from the national Democratic Party, which declared Republican incumbent Michael Flanagan "extremely vulnerable...
BORN: Sept. 6, 1941, Parkdale, Ark. EDUCATION: Arkansas A.M.&N. College, B.A., 1961; Chicago State U, M.A., 1968; Union Institute, Ph.D., 1977 FAMILY: Wife, Vera; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY : None OCCUPATION: Health-organization consultant; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Chicago Alderman, 1979-90; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1984, 1986; Cook County commissioner, 1990-; candidate for Chicago mayor, 1991 ADDRESS: 5730 West Division Street, Chicago...
Kennedy and Alderman, both 37, took on this subject when they realized that readers of their first book frequently asked them about privacy. When they began their research they were skeptical about whether a serious assault on privacy was under way. Says Alderman, who lives in Maine with her lawyer husband William Harwood: "We thought, Can it really be that bad? But when you look at [the issues] all together, it's really disturbing what's happening." To make this clear, the authors open the book with perhaps the most sensational of their case studies: the story of several women...