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...from the typically cocksure Mayor Richard M. Daley, the savvy Chicago ambassador courting CEOs and world-class architects, or the hard-knuckle retail politician pressing the flesh in his family's blue-collar neighborhoods. A week after two of Daley's top officials were charged with mail fraud in a widening federal corruption probe, the Cook County Republican Party had gone so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the conviction of the mayor himself, and suddenly he seemed a bit like a wounded animal, ready to lash out or, alternatively...
...most of his 16 years in office, Daley has seemed responsible for everything in Chicago, good and bad. Despite his own fair share of embarrassing scandals, the son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley has largely managed to avoid his father's notoriety for cronyism and back-room dealing, a record of corruption that led to a federal ban in 1983 on almost all politically motivated hiring in Cook County. Instead Daley has won praise for spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education--which earned him a place as one of America's Best...
...hour. Still, the best defense, according to many security experts, is a civilian offense. Well before the London attacks, many cities had been recruiting riders as watchdogs. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, posters remind passengers in New York City and Los Angeles. Last week Mayor Richard Daley deputized the people of Chicago: "If someone is wearing a winter coat in the subway, if you see someone dropping a package, it's better to call 911. That's all you have...
George Q. Daley, who is an associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Children’s Hospital and HMS and a member of the executive committee of HSCI, testified before the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space in September 2004. He spoke about the limitations of adult stem cell research, saying that it had been successful in certain instances—exemplified by bone marrow transplants—but that scientists need to move forward with experiments on embryonic stem cells...
...It’s not a wistful notion,” he says. “If Mayor Daley is saying he can do it in Chicago, if Mayor Bloomberg is saying he can do it in New York, if Mayor Newsom is saying he can do it in San Francisco, I would trust that my good friends in Cambridge believe they...