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...green. More specifically, it wasn't easy being Mark Green last week, when New York City's public advocate--the early front runner in the race to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor--swept into an awards breakfast in Harlem, and nobody seemed to care. Green is the most quotable Democrat in town, but when reporters approached him at the breakfast, they only wanted to talk about the short, wispy-haired man who showed up 10 minutes later: billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 59, the political novice who created a minor sensation last week by announcing as a Republican candidate...
...lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg saw he would never get the party's nod and switched eight months ago to the anemic New York G.O.P. He is hoping that his puckish smile, fabulous parties and high-wire life (he owns homes in Manhattan, London, Bermuda and Westchester County, flies his own helicopter and has dated women like Diana Ross) will outshine a Democratic field littered with smart but lackluster pols. And Bloomberg has proved that his dollars come with sense, hiring an A-list team of political veterans to finesse his policies and produce his image...
...wrote that "one law for the Lion & Ox is oppression" was also a passionate democrat, a republican. His views as a workingman (which printers were) aligned him with the most radical tenets of English working-class thought. He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine. He contemptuously referred to George III as "old Nobodaddy" and eagerly awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden...
...lose? Because James Hahn, 50, the mild-mannered city attorney and fellow Democrat who most people figured would get lost beside the flamboyant Villaraigosa, turned out to be the better street fighter. With a tough, tightly focused campaign that kept Villaraigosa on the defensive, Hahn managed to convince a winning coalition of blacks and moderate white Democrats and Republicans that there were too many questions about Villaraigosa's integrity to entrust Villaraigosa with running the nation's second largest city. "I can be as tough as necessary," the silver-haired bureaucrat said on Election Day, showing a side...
...next few months, the most important audience for Rumsfeld's diplomatic charm may be a fractious, self-important, Democrat-controlled body on Capitol Hill. When that exercise starts, the headlines will be about NATO enlargement and Senate worries about allied reaction to missile defense. But remember: Asia's where you'll find the real meat in the defense review...