Word: aldermanic
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...class harbor at the end of the Reagan decade seem to have aggravated racial tensions rather than creating, as Jesse Jackson hoped, a "rainbow coalition" of poor and disaffected citizens of all colors. New York City has recently lurched from scholarly disputes about race to racial showdowns, a Milwaukee alderman has threatened to form a Black Panther militia if the city does not improve the conditions of blacks, and campuses across the country are so infected with intolerance that educators have organized mandatory "sensitivity training" sessions. In this climate it is hard to imagine that a sense of class solidarity...
Mesmerized by the prospect of a business boom that could produce thousands of new white-collar and service jobs, Milwaukee's civic leaders never gave much thought to the possibility of civil unrest. So it came as a shock when alderman Michael McGee proclaimed earlier this month that he was forming a Black Panther militia that would resort to "actual fighting, bloodshed and urban guerrilla warfare" unless the city did more to improve the lot of impoverished African Americans. Inner-city blacks, warned McGee, were fed up with white officials spending money on shopping malls and skyscrapers while prosperity passed...
...exactly sure what happened," said Harvard Assistant Coach Paul Alderman, "They had a really good week of practice. They looked as good as I've seen them all year...
...Cole is going through a transitional period in his wrestling," Alderman said, "in which he's starting to wrestle at a higher level. The transition is difficult, so he's actually wrestling better than people think...
...convicted on the misdemeanor charge of drug possession, he could continue to hold office if he is sentenced to less than the one-year maximum term. And precedent exists for the jailhouse election of a municipal official. In 1903 Boston's four-time mayor, James Michael Curley, was elected alderman from jail. In fact, an us-against-them argument could appeal to Barry's populist base in a city fractured along racial and class lines...