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...bully who censors employee e-mail and aims surveillance cameras at his workers. Bloomberg says he would use the same e-mail technology on City Hall computers and put those cameras in high-crime neighborhoods (as Giuliani has). That worries Floyd Flake, an influential black minister and former Congressman. "I think people would feel targeted," he warns. Opponents will no doubt cast Bloomberg (who once said his hobbies were "theater, dining and chasing women") as a Lothario, noting that three sexual-harassment suits have been filed against him--one dismissed, one withdrawn, one settled. "God as my witness...
...Stalling worked for a while. White House aides got Republican Congressman Charles Norwood to hold off sponsoring a similar measure in the House with the promise that they'd negotiate a compromise with him. But "he was being strung along," says GOP Congressman Greg Ganske, a cosponsor of Norwood's bill. While they kept Norwood closeted in endless meetings, Bush aides secretly helped write a bill more to their liking with GOP Sen. Bill Frist and moderates John Breaux and Jim Jeffords. That measure channels all suits into federal courts and limits jury awards for pain and suffering to just...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...
...smaller portion of new immigrants are even trying to become citizens. Some Latino politicians blame bilingualism, the cause for which they fought in the 1970s and 1980s, for discouraging assimilation. "A Latino can exist in their own community and never have to learn English to survive," says Texas Congressman Charles Gonzalez. "My fear is that we have not only isolated ourselves, but we have handicapped ourselves...
...year. It is a big, wild experiment in what happens when two halves of a metropolis are governed by very different economic, civic and cultural rules. This is a place where two cities breathe the same air, drink the same water and share the same destiny along what U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes calls a "seamless border...