Word: mayors
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...anguished white woman staggers from Armstrong Houses, a black housing project in Dempsy, N.J., her palms red with lacerations and glittering with fragments of glass. The victim, Brenda Martin, is stunned and nearly speechless, but Lorenzo Council, a sympathetic black detective whose position in Armstrong seems to be part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep on the car's backseat. Jesse Haus...
Police inspector Javert suspects the mayor, Jean Valjean, is really a thief who broke parole many years before...
...conservative Indiana insurance executive who had launched a privately funded school-voucher experiment in Indianapolis. Together they provided most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school vouchers, statewide-testing standards and class-size reduction. "The most urgent need...
While a number of activists on both sides are working to find a new accommodation between the communities, most Israelis expect relations to deteriorate further. A survey showed that 47% think the situation could lead to civil war. Haim Miller, the haredi deputy mayor of Jerusalem, believes the answer is segregation. "To prevent this conflict, the only way really at this point is some sort of separation," he says. "It's sad, but it's sadder yet if two Jewish people come to blows...
Wayne let that one pass. He said Mayor Giuliani, who has spent a lot of time lately berating New Yorkers for crossing the street incorrectly, might consider requiring every resident to have a walking license. If the resident walked at the wrong time or in the wrong direction, his license could be revoked--sort of grounding for grown-ups. License fees could be used to build a new stadium for George Steinbrenner...