Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last night's speech, Ventura described how both the Republican and Democratic parties rallied against him and told voters he was "evil" when he ran for mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minn., and then, without blinking, courted him shamelessly after he won the election by a landslide...
This has been a week for kiosks and basic morality, morality grand and misjudged and morality small but significant. First, the latest from the Out of Town News kiosk: Religion has been in forefront of coverage in both Massachusetts and New York without much good reason. New York mayor Rudy "It's not art if I can do it" Guiliani has withdrawn funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibit "Sensation" because he's offended by a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung and surrounded by a collage of fragments from porn magazines. The First Amendment...
...political leader should mix religion with the question of public funding for an art exhibit and equally worrisome that a religious leader should accuse a nominee of anti-Catholicism on non-existent evidence, prompting the invention of likewise trivial controversy. These efforts, however passionate, are clearly mistaken. Perhaps the Mayor and the Cardinal could put their time to better use by coming to campus and regulating what could be called Godless Harvard's most central belief system: electronic mail...
...said that although Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine failed to invite her to a recent forum concerning the relationship between Harvard and the Boston community, she knows Rudenstine and hopes to work with him during her time as mayor...
...said that her main goal as mayor is to build on Somerville's past success...