Word: mayor
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...international satellite television network, giving the media conglomerate a slice of some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani, who expended considerable political capital as Fox's man in the trenches, is already getting heat for securing something of a sweetheart deal for his political bedfellow Murdoch. The mayor is chipping in one of the city's non-profit educational channels to TIME Warner, which will use it for Fox News until more room can be made on its system. The payoff for New Yorkers: 24-hour news from the owners of the tabloid New York Post...
That kind of youthful logic helped send Mexico tumbling through its most dramatic political upheaval in eight decades. The general election's stunning outcome finally made the country something more than a pseudo democracy with one all-powerful party. In the first ever race for mayor of Mexico City, one of the world's largest and most poverty-ridden capitals, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (P.R.D.) dealt the P.R.I. the worst defeat in its history, while the conservative National Action Party (P.A.N.) captured two key governorships, including the highest office in Nuevo Leon, an industrial state...
...amazing what an image makeover--plus a very unpopular opponent--can do for a politician's fortunes. At age 63, Cardenas was back in the firmament last week as he and his Party of the Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) wrested the Mexico City mayor's office from the P.R.I. by a vote of 47% to 26%, with the right-wing National Action Party polling 16%. Now Cardenas is once more being held up as the man who, in the presidential vote of 2000, can end the P.R.I.'s reign as the world's longest-ruling political party...
...reassured Mexico City's middle class that he would do nothing to interfere with its newfound prosperity. Asked after the election whether he still advocated renegotiation of the NAFTA treaty and renationalization of privatized firms, Cardenas answered that "investors shouldn't worry too much about me, because the mayor has little to do with national economic policy...
...Chicago Mayor RICHARD M. DALEY cares about his family--and so, it seems, do federal investigators. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office are deep into a probe of possibly illegal activities at the law firm of Daley and George, Ltd., which has become a runaway favorite of anyone who might be seeking to do business with the city. The firm's principal partners are MICHAEL DALEY, the mayor's younger brother, and JOHN GEORGE, a close friend of the mayor and his family for decades. The investigation comes at a sensitive time. Chicago's city council has been...