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...Then-New York City mayor Fiorello H.] LaGuardia basically said, ‘You can’t call anything burlesque in New York,’” Allen explains. “And New York being the theatrical hub, burlesque really folds...
Institute of Politics Visiting Fellow and former U.S. Senator Norman B. “Norm” Coleman has spent the past three decades working in public service. Coleman became mayor of St. Paul, Minn. in 1993 and won his Senate seat in 2002. His prolonged battle for reelection grabbed national headlines, ending with his concession to Al Franken ’73 last June...
Norm Coleman: I was a reformer as a young student in the 1960s, and I was a reformer as a mayor. I cut taxes, limited the size of government, worked in partnership with the business community, and was very tough on crime. I took over a city that was dead and dying in the early 1990s and saw revitalization by the principles that I used, which were clearly consistent with Republican principles...
Nowadays, the 136-year-old building betrays few signs of its grim history thanks to a $150 million makeover spearheaded by Mayor Bertrand Delanoë as part of a long-term effort to revitalize Paris' 19th arrondissement. Launched just over a year ago, with high-profile events by fashion giant Alexander McQueen, trip-hop icon Tricky and art-rock legend Lou Reed, the immense 39,000-sq-m space was renovated by architectural firm Atelier Novembre. It boasts artist studios, designer boutiques, a café, a bookshop, a children's area and even a free-standing pizza truck under...
...others insist that declared candidacies are an integral part of any functioning democracy. "It happens all the time. If the mayor of a big city runs for the presidency of his country and doesn't get it, is his position undermined?" asks Piotr Kaczynski, an analyst at the Centre for European Policy Studies, a Brussels think tank. "Unfortunately, secrecy is a natural tendency of E.U. countries. It's hypocritical. If you are running for a position, you should have the courage...