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Guests at next summer's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia can start planning for the 55 different parties, lighted boat parade and fireworks that will spell out G.O.P. 2000. But they can't start planning where they're going to stay. Edward Rendell, the popular Democratic mayor of Philadelphia, instituted a tough "no whining" policy for local hotels to ensure that Republicans get a warm welcome. Rendell, who intends to run for Governor, needs the convention to go swimmingly. "They're not allowed to book anybody," says Rendell. "Every hotel has guaranteed 90% of its room block for that week...
...border patrol has responded by pouring in scores of new agents. The greater surveillance has driven up the cost of guided passage to Phoenix to more than $1,000--triple the price a few years ago. But still they come. "The only real solution is in Mexico," declares Douglas Mayor Ray Borane. "Their government needs to address the flagrant trafficking of humans for profit." Indeed, the traffic has been an economic boon for Agua Prieta, whose 1998 population of 120,000 has swelled an additional 100,000. In the past two years, 15 hotels have opened or started construction, primarily...
Ownership of the site has already been transferred, but a formal handover will take place next Tuesday at the complex, in a ceremony in which Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will take part...
...York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is offended. He?s also shocked. And in a city of largely unflappable urbanites, this is big news. The mayor, a lover of opera and other more traditional art forms, is threatening to pull funding from the city's large but little-known Brooklyn Museum of Art, where a new show called "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" is scheduled to open in early October. The exhibit, which drew more than 300,000 visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well...
...which was hoping that "Sensations" would help put it back on the road to the big leagues ? faces a no-win situation: If they back down and cancel the show, they?ve likely closed their doors to future groundbreaking works. If they stand their ground and defy the mayor, their doors may be closed, period...