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...Fremont A’s, I’m Ghostriding my Volvo.” A longtime Oakland Athletics fan, Houghteling was appalled when the franchise recently announced plans to relocate to Fremont, which the video characterizes as “a parking lot with a mayor.” He and childhood friend Ben Rosenberg filmed a brief clip promising that “to keep the A’s in Oakland, Ben and I are prepared to do anything. Even...ghost ride my Volvo.” The solemn declaration is followed by 75 seconds of glorious...
...Harvard Square used to be barroom after barroom after barroom....It was a lot of trouble,” said Councillor Michael A. Sullivan. “We’ve eliminated that trouble, but we’ve also eliminated the entertainment.” Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 emphasized the importance of liberalizing the city’s restaurant market. “If you’re hungry on a Wednesday night, you shouldn’t have to go to the Hong Kong,” he said. “It?...
...Even better for the embattled President, someone else's woes are for once dominating the news. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, party chairman of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and a likely 2008 presidential candidate, was forced to admit on Nov. 15 that an aide had forged receipts when tallying mayoral expenses. Ma also spent last Thursday morning being questioned by prosecutors over expense money Ma says went to charitable donations, but which his adversaries have accused him of keeping for himself. DPP lawmakers were the first to lodge an official complaint over Ma's expense accounts in August, and they...
Four months after losing the presidential vote to Felipe Caldern, former Mexico City Mayor Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador--alleging election fraud and dirty campaigning--launched a parallel government last week, even swearing himself in as Mexico's "legitimate" President. He plans to draft a constitution and prevent Caldern's Dec. 1 inauguration by staging street protests...
...best wrestlers to represent the presidential palace. For the past five years Karzai has been running the country as if he were a Western politician, and it has earned him little respect. Perhaps this new initiative will turn his reputation around. Instead of being laughed at as the "mayor of Kabul," as his detractors often call him, he could be known as a great Buzkashi sponsor. And in Afghanistan, that's a leader worth following...