Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manny Garcia, Dan Keating, Joseph Tanfani and Andres Viglucci won a $25,000 prize for their work on the series, "Dirty Votes: The Race for Miami's Mayor," which revealed corruption in Miami's city administration...
...speeches at the rally reflected that frustration and a real sense of injustice. "A moon is when someone drops their pants and turns and looks at you," Kenneth E. Reeves '72, then-mayor of Cambridge, boomed to the cheering crowd. "So I am here because I feel that you have been mooned and we have been mooned." Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50 directly challenged administrators and in particular Lewis, who angered many by not attending the rally. "There was a moment in the Bible when it was said that the last shall be first and the first...
Jasper, which calls itself the Jewel of the Forest, is not a frozen-in-time, bigoted Southern town. Although it is 60% white, Mayor R.C. Horn and other influential political figures are black. But the killing had the potential to reopen a lot of wounds and set whites against blacks. That calm reigned is in significant part because of the Byrd family, which preached harmony and refused to blame the entire white community for the acts of three men. King's father, for his part, apologized to the Byrds for the murder. "Please pray for the Byrd family, who have...
Renowned for his no-holds-barred approach to crime, Rudolph Giuliani became the nation's first mayor to order police to seize the cars of first-time drunk drivers. Correct that: even some of those who are not convicted may lose their wheels. Touting the O.J. Simpson case as a worthy model (surely another first), Giuliani explained that when an accused drunk driver is cleared in criminal court, the city may still use civil forfeiture statutes to take his car. This might be applied, he said, in cases in which "it's one of those acquittals in which the person...
...Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio said the construction of new buildings by Harvard would be as contentious as the current competition for affordable housing by students...