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Back when the late Mayor Richard J. Daley and his powerful political machine ran Chicago, winning a Democratic nomination was tantamount to victory in the general election. These days the machine is falling to pieces, and candidates have little to lose by running without its support. The point was made abundantly clear last week when Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, kicked off his campaign for a second term by threatening to skip the Feb. 24 Democratic primary altogether and run as an independent in April's election. Not to be outdone, a brigade of would-be successors...
...white vote, blacks -- voting as a bloc -- have the numerical strength to elect a mayor on their own. That is what happened in 1983, when Washington narrowly won the Democratic nomination in a three-way primary race against former Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County Prosecutor Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary boss. Chastened, Washington's white opponents are now trying to unite behind a single challenger. Says Chicago Political Scientist Paul Green: "The name of the game is to get Harold Washington one-on-one. That's the only way you can beat...
...that Washington's enemies, whose dislike for one another seems to be exceeded only by their distaste for the mayor, have been unable to decide which great white hope to get behind. This year, for the first time in 70 years, Cook County's Democratic Central Committee, Mayor Daley's former stronghold, could not agree on a standard-bearer. So neither Byrne nor the mayor's archenemy, Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, leader of the anti-Washington faction on the city council, has the blessing of the machine...
...forerunner of modern psychology and existentialism. It contains piercing self- examination of the soul ("You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find peace in You") and of the mind ("I cannot totally grasp all that I am"). Indeed, Massachusetts Theologian Brian Daley credits him with being the "discoverer of the person...
...Julie Mihelhic '86 3:33:07 Toby Warden '89 3:34:03 Dave Flanagan '87 3:34:50 Pietro Satriano '89 3:35 Kerry Newman '87 3:37 Helena Buonanno '86 3:38 Kevin Mohan '86 3:38 Jim Warner '86 3:38 John P. Daley '86 3:40 Armand Nicholi '87 3:40 Jim Nagengas '87 3:41:08 Karen Wong '86 3:44 Bill Gump '85 3:51 Pat Smith '86 3:47 Andrew Popell '87 3:53 Michael Alio '86 3:54 Martin Herman '86 3:58 Mary K. Krauss '86 3:58 Diana Murphy...