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...months ago I passed through the central Taiwan city of Taichung and had dinner with its refreshingly down-to-earth Mayor Jason Hu, a former Foreign Minister. Later that Saturday night, Hu, sans entourage, and I took an impromptu walk in a park in a gentrified neighborhood bustling with trendy new shops and eateries. While we strolled, grown-ups came up to shake Hu's hand, embrace him and wish him well, and children jostled to have their pictures taken with him. The atmosphere was jovial - it was clear that Taichung's citizens were very fond of Hizzoner. That...
...WORTHY, Wayne County, Mich., prosecutor, in charging Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff...
...earlier indiscretions as "boneheaded," and attributable to his relative youth. But he and his lawyers have displayed what many call arrogance in the face of the current charges. The prosecutor's team tried to contact Kilpatrick's attorneys to inform them of the pending charges, but the mayor's lawyers apparently ignored the calls. Kilpatrick has also tried to dismiss the charges as racially motivated. But prosecutor Worthy is also African American. Can the mayor come back from this kind of adversity? "Everyone predicted he'd lose the last election. But this time," says Strate, the Wayne State political analyst...
...affair. Beatty swiftly resigned. Kilpatrick and his wife, Carlita, appeared on local television holding hands, apologized and pleaded for privacy as they sorted through the matter. All along, Kilpatrick had loudly pledged that he would never give up the mayorship. Today, his lawyer, Dan Webb, said, "If this mayor is required to resign from public office before that jury trial, it means he's going to be punished prematurely before he gets his day in court...
...Kilpatrick resigns or is found guilty of the charges before his term expires next year, he will be succeeded by Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., 42, the well-regarded president of Detroit's city council who is, like the mayor, a scion of a powerful Michigan political family. In an interview with TIME Monday, Cockrel said that as long as Kilpatrick remains in office with the charges pending, "it will have an impact on how we're viewed around the world, by people who'll think twice about doing business in our city." Cockrel voted in favor of the city council...