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...weekday she boarded the No. 6 bus in her predominantly black Buffalo, New York, neighborhood for the 50-minute ride to Cheektowaga, a white suburb, where she worked as a cashier at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in the glittering, white-marbled Walden Galleria Mall. Often during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn't allowed on mall property. Wiggins had to get out 300 yards away on Walden Avenue, a busy seven-lane highway with no sidewalk. On the morning...
...long, happy sessions spent dreaming about what he would do when he was king, Gingrich put everything on the table. At one "ideas meeting" of GOPAC charter members, he suggested that the government should offer an $8 billion reward, tax-free, to the first private enterprise that could put people into lunar orbit. And he even tried selling it as a deficit-reduction strategy. "If they do it, they just pre-empted nasa's $140 billion program. We saved $132 billion," he said...
Cambridge's charter is based on the "Plan E" type of government. As stipulated in that charter, the city council elects the mayor each term...
...city council shall, by a majority vote of all the members elected, elect a mayor and a vice-chairman form its own members and the persons elected as such shall likewise make oath to perform faithfully the duties of the prospective offices to which they are elected...," the charter reads...
...country premised on a paradox. It is an avowedly secular state established to promote Jewish national life, to turn the Jews, in other words, into an autonomous people like the French or the Germans. At the same time it is a Jewish state which takes as its charter the preservation and propagation of a distinctively Jewish history and heritage. And therein lies the problem...