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Bridgeport whites began to feel abandoned when Mayor Daley departed the family seat in 1993 and purchased a new home on the city's tony South Loop. "You can feel a lot of fear going through the neighborhood," says Dominic A. Pacyga, a historian at Columbia College who grew up near Bridgeport. "People say to themselves, 'Is this another nail in the coffin?' They feel that it's not home anymore...
Every New Yorker has a Times Square story. Rudolph Giuliani, the city's high-strung mayor, fondly recalls trips to see the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Paramount theater. "They were my favorite comedians as a youngster," Giuliani recalls. "The crowds would spill right out onto Times Square. It would almost be like a New Year's Eve celebration. Dean and Jerry would hang out the window of their dressing room and throw programs and things down to their fans." According to Giuliani, Times Square in those days was "the center of the world" --just...
...applaud Cambridge Mayor Sheila Russell for her recent decision to include the community in the search process for a new superintendent of schools. We believe that the voices of those who will be affected by the choice will be particularly instructive, and we are thrilled to see the Mayor encouraging greater civic involvement...
Previous proposals included a total abandonment of the racial quota system--a plan initially favored by Mayor Thomas M. Meni-no--but those suggestions have partly died down in the furor over the issue
Previous proposals included a total abandonment of the racial quota system--a plan initially favored by Mayor Thomas M. Meni-no--but those suggestions have partly died down in the furor over the issue