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...rules are different here is a slogan Miami has used to lure tourists. Unfortunately, city officials seem to think it applies to them as well. One of the mayor's chief foes, a Cuban-American multimillionaire, once offered to settle their feud with a duel in Central America. A few years ago, when city bureaucrats squabbled over jobs, voodoo dolls with tiny nooses began appearing at City Hall. And Miami officials were caught buying stolen designer clothing for pennies on the dollar in a scandal known as "Hot Suits...
...city's financial woes are made worse by recordkeeping so poor that even City Hall can't tell where the red ink is leaking. Mayor Joe Carollo, who took office last July and inherited the current financial mess, concedes that the $68 million deficit figure is little more than a guess, given the state of the city's books. "We know less about our checkbook than the average husband and wife do," says Thomas Tew, a lawyer advising the city...
...Mayor Carollo insists his constituents are not ready to give up on the city. He vows to "rebuild Miami from top to bottom" and says technical support from the state in areas like budgets and capital planning will make a real difference. But the first step is for the city to develop a workable plan for getting expenditures and revenues in balance, and that has not happened yet. What may save Miami in the short run is not so much Carollo's drive for reform but old-fashioned ethnic politics. Latinos have a lock on Miami government; four...
...Jianzhong, head of China's film bureau, and Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi have each visited the U.S. and complained about Kundun. These kinds of culture clashes won't go away soon. "They don't have any idea what will happen once they become part of the world market," says Gere. "Russia learned how countries just can't pick and choose what they want to see--after MTV and cable TV come in, it all comes in. You can't hold back a flood...
...light of the housing problem, Vice-mayor Kathleen L. Born and City Manager Robert W. Healy entered into debate over the future of the city's Kendall Square fire station property...