Word: mayors
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BOSTON--Flanked by a multi-racial contingent of once-opposites in Boston's infamous school desegregation battle, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced the city's historic plan to eliminate race as a factor in school assignment on Wednesday...
Such smugness lacks imagination. The polls have Mrs. Clinton (not yet formally announced but house hunting in Westchester County and running hard) just about even with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. She heads into upstate New York this week on a five-city swing (Oneonta, Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Cooperstown). But forget early polls. Over time, all great stories are subject to transformation, surprise, sudden unexpected bloom...
...Rudy Giuliani will play disastrously as a candidate. He has performed well, if autocratically, as mayor of New York City, but rarely has a mayor of New York ever amounted to anything outside the five boroughs. Giuliani has alienated approximately 99.9% of the black vote (and the old pols' sneer "blacks don't vote" may not apply anymore). People upstate may admire the man who cleaned up Sodom and Gomorrah, but he will not wear well, I'd guess. With his combed-over death's-head countenance, his bullying instincts and his bizarre lack of self-awareness (he seems...
...liberal News put her face on the Statue of Liberty, gleefully noting that Hillary?s upcoming cover-girl party for about-to-be launched Talk magazine was back on in the Big Apple, right on Liberty Island ? and that the First Lady, unlike her main rival, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, has vowed to serve her full six-year term if elected. (Giuliani, as politics lovers will know, had banned the Talk bash from taking place in New York's Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...Films part-owns the publication, had applied to hold their August revel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by New York City. But Giuliani balked when rumors, still unsubstantiated, swirled that the magazine's first cover girl would be HILLARY CLINTON, who is likely to face the mayor in next year's Senate race. This act led to more press than even the publicity-ravenous Weinstein could consume. The Navy Yard's administrator issued a statement expressing concern that "...the party was beginning to take on a political cast and was no longer simply for the launch...