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...Antonio. So high had his star risen during four much admired terms in office that in 1984 Cisneros was considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate. But last week the mayor, 41, took a dive off his pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with a 39-year-old married campaign worker, Linda Medlar. Said Medlar, wife of a local jeweler, in the same article...
Karl Marx said that historical events and personalities enact themselves first as tragedy and then, in their repetition, as farce. Some of the imitations and reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...
News Editor for this Issue: Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Melissa R. Hart '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Editorial Editors: John C. Yoo '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editor: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Sports Editors: Casey J. Lartigue '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Photo Editor: Laura A. DeBonis '91 Copy Editor: Tracy Kramer...
...salute our crack reporting team of Mike Bonin, Seth Gitell, Susan Glasser, Melissa Hart and John Thompson for conceiving, reporting and writing the bulk of this week's What. You've done your city proud. Now if only the Red Sox would do the same...
News Editor For This Issue: Julie L. Belcove '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Noam S. Cohen '89 Susan B. Glasser '90 Brooke A. Masters '89 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Copy Editor: Jennifer Atkinson '92 Feature Editors: Mark M. Colodny '89 Melissa R. Hart '91 Editorial Editor: John C. Yoo '89 Photo Editor: Terry R.R. Roopnaraine '90 Sports Editor: Michael R. Stankiewicz '91 Business Editor: Kenneth M. Richman...