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...every one of the city's 20 districts, but it was a close thing: his sub-mayor in the 3rd arrondissement, Jacques Dominati, squeaked through with a margin of just 20 votes. Opponents charged that Dominati and his allies, including his sons Laurent and Philippe - now respectively a city councillor and a senator - had won only after enriching the electoral rolls with the names of 327 non-residents. Dominati, denying any wrongdoing, has claimed that adding the names of friends and relatives was "a republican custom." So, he might have argued, was the promise from Chirac this summer that...
...simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town's population has grown to 70,000, many of them well-salaried young people who grew up with the town. They still go all-out during Cristo de los Remedios, but now there are plenty of other things to do during the rest...
...series of hurdles as they tried to park their cars, including the ever-present threats of tickets and towings, and a 1930 city ordinance that prohibited overnight parking on public roads.HELL ON WHEELSThe students who had cars found resourceful ways to deal with Cambridge authorities. In December 1955, City Councillor Marcus Morton called for what The Crimson labeled a “full-scale attack” against violators, and in July 1956, Cambridge police officers in Harvard Square wrote 5,000 parking tickets in two weeks, issuing so many that their press ran dry and additional orders of tickets...
...system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that is hemorrhaging students.” Last week, the Finance Committee voted...
...credibility. "I didn't have any problems with him before the war," says Nigel Williams, a marketing manager. "Now I think he should concede." Ed Owen, who advised Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for 12 years before starting a political-communications firm, spent last month campaigning to become a Labour councillor in his London borough. Owen found "a good deal of hostility to Blair among middle-class, liberal-leaning Labour supporters, much of it wrapped up with Iraq," he says. And he adds, ruefully, that "Blair is no longer the unfailing and extraordinary asset he was when he burst onto...