Word: mayor
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...Diallo killing has prompted a wave of protests and civil disobedience. More than 140 demonstrators, including Congressman Charles Rangel, former Mayor David Dinkins and N.A.A.C.P. president Kweisi Mfume, have been arrested in front of New York's police headquarters in the past two weeks. The protests are designed to pressure the police department--and especially Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--into addressing racism and brutality in the ranks. And New York City public advocate Mark Green last week called on Police Commissioner Howard Safir to resign, saying Safir has failed to deal adequately with the allegations against his department...
Harvard students spoke at the meeting, urging the council to adopt a Cambridge wide living wage ordinance. Even though that ordinance was not discussed, Harvard students did not return to campus empty handed. Vice-Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio moved the impromptu late order that supported the students' efforts to bring a living wage to Harvard...
...next five years, in part to support an increasingly wired country. But a growing number of small towns have decided to take matters into their own hands. Some are forming cooperatives to string their own wire. Others are pulling strings. In Lusk, Wyo., a cajoling and far-sighted mayor was able to get fiber-optic cable laid into his town of 1,600 and give its two schools access to a T1 line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back...
Julius Miller, a former Manhattan Borough President, was mentioned in passing last week because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--living proof that not all American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani...
...continues the author's celebration of his Cuban roots. His Lydia moves with stoic grace through decades of caring for a sickly husband, guiding her children to successful adulthoods and straightening up other people's digs. That she had been a head-turning beauty and proud daughter of a mayor in pre-Castro Cuba would not occur to someone sitting opposite her on the subway. Yet as a character endowed with romantic yearnings, she is hard to ignore. Hijuelos' episodic format doesn't quite gel. But that is more than offset by his emotional fine tuning and pitch-perfect prose...