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...pundits - has suggested that Daley, who said Harris was "a very good employee" under his watch, would be swept up in the current probe. In fact, the mayor and the governor have had a well-known, long-standing political schism. But it does create some unease on the fifth floor of city hall, a suite that Harris got to know quite well before he was rejected for the position of Daley's chief of staff in 2005, prompting his jump from the city to the state payroll...
...that Vermont was a good test for us. They are a great team, but we were able to bounce back from Tuesday’s night’s loss and play forty minutes of tough basketball.” It seemed that the Crimson was cruising to its fifth win of the year as the team led 68-62 with just over a minute to play, but Vermont junior Courtnay Pilypaitis had other things in mind. The Cantamount guard sunk a three point shot from deep center court to bring Vermont within three of the Crimson with...
...City of New York has the exhibit Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson - black-and-white pictures of razed sections of New York City, taken between 1982 and 1984, depicting the aftermath of the last economic crisis, in the 1970s. Through March 8, 2009. 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, New York...
...ostentatious social climber with a penchant for extravagant parties, Jay Gatsby would fit right in at any of Harvard’s social organizations for fine young gentlemen. Of course, if Jay Gatsby were at Harvard, his “parties” would consist of chugging half a fifth of vodka and hooking up with Daisy’s blockmate on a pool table at the Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand Jay Gatsbys at Harvard. Character: Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole...
...domestic-abuse cases. He married well; his wife Patti, the daughter of influential Chicago alderman Richard Mell, used her father's political smarts to help Blagojevich win elections - first to Illinois' General Assembly in 1992 then, four years later, to the U. S. House, as the Representative from the Fifth District of Illinois, which includes parts of Chicago's North Side...