Word: mayoral
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...where he was co-captain of the basketball team, Duncan spent a year playing the sport in Australia before returning to his hometown in 1992. Within short order, he was garnering national attention for starting an innovative - and successful - public school, Ariel Community Academy. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to run the city's schools in 2001. (Read more about Obama and education...
...think it's absolutely crazy if those charges and allegations are true. Chicago has had a history of bizarre politics that we thought we had moved beyond with Obama and with [Mayor Richard] Daley. And I think that it's a great city and it's a great place, and I hope that we don't get judged based on that. We're hoping for the Olympics, and I don't want anything to blow the chances of that...
...nearby subway station and dining on garbage left on the sidewalk by a grocery store or restaurant. Getting rid of that rat population would require collaboration between the three city agencies that govern the subway, the park and the sidewalks - an endeavor that has gotten easier since the mayor's office set up the Rodent Task Force, which meets weekly to coordinate work...
...more seasoned politicians who are also interested in the job. Among those who are being mentioned as possible candidates are Kennedy's former cousin-in-law, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo; at least four current House members, including Kirsten Gillibrand, Carolyn Maloney, Brian Higgins and Steve Israel; Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; and Nassau County executive Tom Suozzi. Last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman said he didn't know of any qualifications that Kennedy has, "except that she has name recognition - but so does J. Lo." (See other possible candidates for Clinton's Senate seat...
...Hussein had been fighting each other for months. In October, leaders of the East African regional group known as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, scolded Yusuf and Hussein for infighting. Their dispute grew even more bitter after Hussein fired the mayor of Mogadishu and the pair could not agree on new Cabinet appointments. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who ordered his troops into Somalia two years ago to prop up the transitional government, called the squabbling a "never-ending saga" that must end. The Council of the European Union declared the same, saying it was time...