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Depending on your definition of "Major U.S. City," Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland, Ore., is not necessarily the first openly gay man to lead a major U.S. city [Feb. 9]. That designation may more deservedly go to David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, R.I., elected in 2002. Portland's population is bigger, but Providence is its state's capital. That's pretty major in its own right. Rick Carson, ST. PETERSBURG...
America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...
...campaign prompted Father Gianfranco Calabrese, a spokesman for the Archbishop of Genoa, to speak out against what many opponents of the campaign call blasphemy. "There are some methods which promote dialogue and others which feed intolerance," he said. "Head-on opposition always demonstrates intolerance." Marta Vincenzi, the city's mayor, told reporters that officials will not "act as censors...
...Reformist activists say their unofficial polling show that Khatami would beat Ahmadinejad by a two-to-one margin. "The surveys may show great support for Khatami," says Majid Hosseini, a political analyst in the camp of the Tehran mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, "but the reformists are ignoring an important factor: our surveys show that those supporters won't actually show up at the polls to vote. They won't participate, because they have already been through this scenario for two terms and nothing happened...