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Twice since Martin O'Malley was elected mayor six years ago, Baltimore has been hit by blizzards. Each time, he had city workers phone as many as 25,000 elderly residents to ensure they were O.K. Then he had cops punch through the drifts, carrying bread, milk and toilet paper to those seniors running low. That's a snow job voters appreciate, and it helped re-elect O'Malley with 87% of the vote last year...
...saying to each other. The special gift saves the young lad from a litany of perilous encounters until one evening, while resting under a tree with two friends, he hears two little birds sharing the news from Rome that the Pope had died. The cardinals are set to elect a successor, one bird tells the other, and one of the three boys under the tree will be the next pope. This of course sends the protagonist off to Rome, leaving his two oblivious companions behind. Once in the eternal city, as ancient legend holds, a dove landed on his head...
...influencing who would be the next pope. [American Cardinals are not considered realistic candidates because the U.S. is too powerful geopolitically.] Even if his American colleagues may not denounce him publicly, like Blaine would like, they will certainly not be following his guidance in the closed-door campaign to elect a new pontiff. Privately, many Cardinals will say that they have lost much credibility in their own dioceses because Law stayed on in Boston long after he should have resigned...
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rantes in June, which he would be highly favored to win. In either event, he would not take office until July 28. But for the thousands who cheered his victory, García was already Peru's President-elect...
Whoever is tapped will be hard put to become as powerful a player as was the once obscure, two-term Michigan Congressman and former Harvard Divinity School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protégé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...