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Together these wealthy women call many of the shots in the West's second largest city. They set the tone of its breezy conservatism. They generate much of its impulse for urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond...
...Yorkers take a perverse pride in their legendary brusqueness. But local leaders are beginning to be worried that the city's surly citizens are hurting tourism, a major industry. Herb Rickman, president of New York Pride, a nonprofit promoter of civic activism, says surveys show that visitors increasingly cite such enduring city icons as crabby cabbies and snarling salesclerks as serious arguments against a return visit. Rickman's response: the Civility Campaign, an effort to make New Yorkers a little more pleasant...
...clear that he can take a position and speak about it all night," says Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, who is backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a group which Walsh frequently opposes...
Those who suggest I am not accessible clearly haven't called my office, written a letter or attended the scores of neighborhood and civic functions and meetings where residents have expressed their concerns to me. Alvin E. Thompson 28th Middlesex District
...than 2,400 amateur teams and some 100,000 players. But support for the Minnesota North Stars, the state's poorly performing National Hockey League team, is so frigid that owners George and Gordon Gund are threatening to move the money-losing franchise to Oakland or San Jose unless civic officials spend $15 million to install sky boxes and other improvements in the team's aging arena in suburban Minneapolis...