Word: mayors
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Under Plan E, the city's most powerful official is the city manager. The City Council sets policy and makes laws which are carried out by the city manager. The mayor serves as chair of both the School Committee and City Council and is chosen by the council, not the voters...
...into the box, I felt a slight lump in my throat. I'm a sucker for the rituals and realities of democracy, and here we were in the remote Chinese village of Liujiachang watching a thousand citizens in a schoolyard listen to campaign speeches and then vote for mayor. The incumbent, a slick young man elected three years ago, promised to lower taxes and improve irrigation. The challenger, older and more earthy, promised to open the village books for inspection and eloquently described how his own success as a farmer and former mayor would make him a better choice...
Outraged by one work in the exhibition, Chris Ofili's black madonna festooned with elephant dung, Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor and all-but-declared U.S. Senate candidate, refused to pay the October installment of the city's $7 million subsidy to the museum. The city further claimed that the institution, in league with Christie's auction house, a sponsor of the show and the seller of $2.6 million of Saatchi's art last year, was knowingly trying to raise the value of Saatchi's collection. It then filed suit to throw the museum--one of the finest...
...Washington as well, where the Senate passed a nonbinding resolution sponsored by New Hampshire Senator Robert Smith that called for an end to federal funding for the museum. Trying not to alienate either camp, Hillary Clinton, Giuliani's likely opponent for New York's Senate seat, chided the mayor for threatening to shut down the museum but added, "There are parts of this exhibit that would be deeply offensive. I would not go to see this exhibit...
...classes in the Science Center or at Boylston, where the line snakes so hellishly far out of the hallway that it blocks the stairs. It's impossible to prevent this kind of traffic jam, but common courtesy would help alleviate it. By standards much less severe than those of Mayor Guiliani, the typical e-mail check at a kiosk should be brief, a cursory glance at an inbox's contents for emergency messages and crucial information or a quickly sent e-mail, nothing more. But all of us at one time or another have committed the sin of selfishness...