Word: hahn
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...Angeles since 1872. Made of equal parts passion and personal charm, he acted during the campaign as if he wanted to shake hands with every one of the city's 4 million citizens. He could not be more different from the man he trounced (59% to 41%), incumbent James Hahn, 54, whose low-key, uncharismatic approach to the mayor's office proved a fatal flaw in an election between two Democrats that turned more on matters of style and leadership than policy...
...tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected to the California state assembly in 1994. He served as speaker of the assembly from 1998 to 2000, then ran for mayor and lost to Hahn in 2001, but was elected to the city council. Throughout his career, he has shown more skill in bringing opposing sides together to negotiate deals than in generating new ideas. In this year's mayoral race he pledged to improve education and increase the number of police but offered...
...chairman. He donated $250,000 to the recount effort of Christine Gregoire, who eventually won a very close Governor's race in Washington. Venturing into local politics, he will probably endorse Antonio Villaraigosa in a runoff election for mayor in L.A., choosing a loyal supporter over incumbent James Hahn. "He gets to travel and gets to pick up IOUs," says former party chairman Steve Grossman, a Boston fund raiser who served as Dean's campaign chairman...
Roth—who had zero saves during his time in net but still left with a shutout—was taken out with less than eight minutes to play so that freshman Adam Hahn could see some action. But at the 85:54 mark, UMass connected with a score after a corner kick...
...Hahn, a television writer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and business partner Melanie Ray, started making Caramel Sin, "a fine candy in a jar," and Cranberry Fool, a natural, cooked-fruit topping, as holiday presents for family and friends about 14 years ago. Encouraged by the accolades they received, he concluded that he was sitting on a gold mine. "One Christmas, when it got to be more than 300 jars, my wife said, 'Get it out of my kitchen,'" he says...