Word: mayor
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...bars of the capital are filled night after night with people quaffing imported whisky and showing off breast implants. Despite massive oil profits, eggs have been absent from the shelves of my local supermarket for so many months that their designated shelf has been given over to Tupperware. The mayor of Caracas has been filmed getting into a short brawl with fans at an international soccer tournament, and has proposed to deal with rampant crime by floating blimps with crime-detecting cameras in the sky. Venezuela has never been wanting for weirdness; even so, August was a stellar month...
...this would hardly be the first time free food has come in pro-Chavez packaging. In June, mothers complained that an elementary school in Caracas was handing out red "socialist" lunch boxes on which were painted the slogan "With Chavez, only one government" and the logo of the Chavista mayor's office...
...reinstate Rome's Fiumicino airport as the airline's primary transatlantic hub, pulling flights from Milan's Malpensa airport. A decade ago, the construction of the airport 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Milan was seen as a great victory for powerful northern politicians. Now both the Milanese mayor Letizia Moratti and the governor of the Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni - both rising stars of the center-right, which is the opposition in the capital - have vowed to fight the plan. Alitalia officials will also be bracing for the reaction from the unions, who in the past have launched repeated strikes...
Inevitably, some semipopulist politicians have seen the value of sort-of waiting in lines with the hoi polloi. This summer Philadelphia mayor John Street waited outside an AT&T store from 3:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. before a stand-in from his office literally stood in for Hizzoner while he conducted official business. And billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg often waits for the subway with his fellow citizens, though he's first driven by motorcade past the stop nearest his house to a station 22 blocks away, where the wait, or at least the ride, is shorter...
Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has appeared often on Letterman's show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and other shows, says the talk-show circuit allows the candidate a chance to open up to an audience outside of the bounds of a news interview. "I think it speaks for itself when the mayor is allowed to show voters a more humorous side," Comella said. "It happens on the campaign trail, but it isn't necessarily seen by millions of people at one time... More than anything it allows voters...