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...waved a broom and promised to clean up the bespattered administration of Washington's Mayor Marion Barry, convicted of possessing cocaine. And if housekeeping seemed somewhat foreign to the stiffly formal lawyer and former electric-utility executive, Sharon Pratt Dixon wasted no time carrying out her pledge. On the day after she decisively won the mayoralty of the U.S. capital, she called for the resignation of 177 of her predecessor's top city appointees...
...This Island. It blends a color- splashed tropical look, a calypso-influenced sound and folkloric storytelling with a moral order and sense of justice derived from ancient Greek myths. A romance between a foundling girl of the peasant class (La Chanze) and a scion of wealthy planters (Jerry Dixon) seems hopeless in this life yet is resolved happily in generations to come, through enchantment and physical transformations of mankind into nature...
Vincent L. Dixon...
...dealing for the first time with a Republican who has run seriously for this seat," Dixon said. "We are breaking new ground...
Despite his loss, Dixon was pleased with the campaign and its outcomes. "I defied the odds," he said. "I may have done so in such a way that I couldn...