Word: mayors
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...Nation doesn't have problems to fight back against. Since Rudolph Giulani was elected mayor of New York city, crime has decreased by 40 percent but police brutality in the same time period has increased by 60 percent, and 80 percent of the victims of this police brutality are people of color. Anthony Baez was murdered by the NYPD-he asphyxiated when an officer threw him to the ground in a choke hold after Baez had argued with the police for accosting his brother. The police warned Baez's mother to stay away from the Nation, but she ignored them...
...Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who spoke before Gore, also emphasized the part athletics play in preventing crime and drug use among young people...
...Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who spoke before Gore, also emphasized the part athletics play in preventing crime and drug use among young people...
Vouchers may be the next big thing in American education. Thousands of students in Cleveland and Milwaukee, Wis., are using tax dollars to attend private schools, and Florida is poised to adopt the nation's first statewide program. Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania may follow. In New York City, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is thinking of introducing vouchers, though his schools' chancellor has threatened to resign if the mayor does. Privately funded voucher programs have sprung up in an additional 39 cities, and this week the largest such program in the U.S., founded by Wal-Mart scion John Walton and financier...
...York Senate race until June. But her advisers say that the more she thinks about it--egged on in private by the Campaigner in Chief--the more she likes the idea. She's unfazed by polls showing her lead shrinking in a hypothetical match with New York Mayor RUDY GIULIANI and advice from her strategists that her chances are about even in a race that would be largely fought upstate and on Long Island. Says an intimate: "The upsides are taking the balance right now." Meanwhile, Hillary's other post-White House options--running a university or a think tank...