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...death penalty, welfare and affirmative action--have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches in gay-pride parades...
Political tensions were again in the air when Harvard accepted a donation of $20 million by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud in 2005, whose pledge of $10 million to the Twin Towers Fund was rejected by New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani due to Alwaleed’s pro-Palestinian message...
When Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker promised five dollars to the student who could name the vice president of the United States, the fifth grade class at the Newton Street School of Humanities was stumped. “George Bush” was the closest answer that Mr. Booker heard, before he was forced to put his money away...
...committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 saw the proposal differently. “[Teachers and principals] are already totally overwhelmed,” she said. “Obviously $5,000 doesn’t buy a whole curriculum.” Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons criticized the lack of spending flexibility in the budget plan presented by Fowler-Finn. The proposed budget would cut almost $3 million, according to Fowler-Finn. “I don’t want to have a zero balance budget,” she said...
...London's superrich from tooling down Park Lane in their Lamborghinis, and Johnson is right that affluent households may just add a brace of low-emissions cars to their private transport options. A small increase in traffic as people take advantage of the exemption is unlikely to worry the Mayor, whose main aim is to wean people off private cars and onto buses, tubes and bikes. He says the scheme will be monitored and the exemption repealed if "hordes of people with a malignant turn of mind rush out to buy [low-emissions] cars just to annoy...