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...great midcentury heyday of Chicago's Democratic machine, politics was open only to those with a sponsor--"We don't want nobody nobody sent," a ward boss famously said. By the time Obama got into the game in the 1990s, it was no longer an exclusive club. The centrally controlled party organization had splintered into a loose group of ward committees that operated like autonomous fiefs. Still, old practices died hard; the same virtues of loyalty and familiarity were rewarded by new bosses who expected political newcomers to pay their dues--and wait their turn...
...years after the fall of communist power, the Wild East was no place for faint hearts. Artyom Tarasov, one of Russia's first post-communist millionaires, recalled how quickly business disputes could turn into something much nastier when he described an incident from 1992 at the Club Volodya Cemago in Moscow. "A number of gangsters turned up that day with a clear mission: extract several million dollars from me or, failing that, kidnap me," he said. A veritable army then emerged from both sides - 30 to 40 men. "Given that all were armed to the teeth, it was only...
...committee also discussed a proposal by the UC, the Harvard College Democrats, and the Harvard Republican Club that would allow students’ participation in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to appear on transcripts...
...under fire from some environmental advocates for opposing more stringent fuel economy standards. “It’s as if the Yankees promoted manager Joe Torre to reach out to the Red Sox,” Dan Becker, director of the global warming program at the Sierra Club, told The New York Times when Cischke was appointed in 2007.But yesterday, she focused on Ford’s top environmental priorities, including “ecoboosting”—reducing carbon emissions and increasing fuel economy without compromising performance—and reducing the weight of their...
...Hash House Harriers is a social group of runners that meets in cities all over the world to go for a jog followed by a few beers. It calls itself "a drinking club with a running problem." But in Beijing two weeks ago, the Hash House Harriers ran into a more serious problem. After a five-mile jaunt through a bar district in eastern Beijing, seven runners were detained by police on suspicion that they were involved in a terrorist plot. "We did not imagine that, of all the things that could happen, we'd get arrested for running," says...