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...driving force behind this fresh approach to urban government is a handful of "new pragmatist" mayors--Indianapolis' Goldsmith, Cleveland's Michael White, Philadelphia's Edward Rendell, Milwaukee's John Norquist, Chicago's Richard M. Daley and to some extent Los Angeles' Robert Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani--who actively collaborate and compare notes on how to make cities work. Goldsmith visits Giuliani every few months to talk shop; Rendell and Goldsmith bounce ideas off each other at frequent joint speaking appearances. And good practices, big or small, travel fast. "You learn a lot from each other," says...
...they have also developed a flexible, post-ideological approach to politics. Cities that once thrived on straight-ticket Democratic machine politics, where labor unions and social-welfare programs were considered untouchable, are led today by some of the nation's most nonpartisan and politically unpredictable politicians. On school vouchers Cleveland's White, an African-American Democrat, is sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says New York's Giuliani, a Republican who broke with...
...career. In 1974, a young Bill Clinton fresh out of law school campaigned for Congress. He recalled "the words of a friend of mine who works on the Scott Country road crew, "the people want a hand up, not a hand out." Twenty-tow years later, Clinton spoke in Cleveland on the last day of his last campaign. He called on Americans to "work together to give everyone the tools they need, the chance--not a guarantee, but a chance to make the most of our own lives and build that bridge to the 21st century together...
...experienced the thrill of winning a championship. Then I made the transition to a team sport--softball. By the summer of 1954, when I was 13, the softball team began to shape my sense of self. I played with the West Boulevard Annie Oakleys in the Pigtail League in Cleveland, Ohio. The positive attitude of the coaches--one of whom was George Steinbrenner, then a graduate student--made all the difference: they decided we could win a championship. They also taught us there were ways to play the game so we could...
...music, an auction from the estate of an avid fan, and early morning meditations at his grave site (they're free, but they're at 6) Even if you can't make it to Memphis, you can still participate. A Blue Suede Shoes ballet, performed by the Cleveland San Jose Ballet, is touring the country, and rca is releasing the four-volume Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music, which contains 100 recordings, 77 of them previously unreleased, including Elvis' version of Blowin' in the Wind...