Word: mayors
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...greatest qualities is his serenity, the sense of dignity under incredible turmoil and strife," says Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, who has worked with Mandela. "During all his years of captivity they never broke his spirit...
Also attending last night's event were the glitterati of the state Democratic party: Senator John F. Kerry, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino, and Sen. Edward P. Kennedy '54-'56, whose introduction of Al Gore '69 brought a moment of unintended levity to the event...
...Stop asking me about the Jews being the bloodsuckers of the black nation.... They are the bloodsuckers of the black community," he told the crowd. Then, when he threatened the mayor and police, advising the audience to fight any officers who began confrontation, police charged the stage and shut down the rally. In the following days, black leaders accused the mayor of turning Harlem into a police state and of treating black New Yorkers like second-class citizens...
Both incumbent Alvin E. Thompson, a part-time security guard in Pforzheimer House, and Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, who lost to Wolf in 1996 by a 90-vote margin, emphasized their working-class roots in this summer's campaign. But they were topped respectively by Barrios, a Harvard-educated attorney, and Wolf, who received support from women's groups and The Boston Globe...
...said her immediate priority is a special legislative session to override several vetoes by Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci. She hopes to pursue education and affordable housing issues, two longtime interests she advocated as a member of the Cambridge School Committee and as a former city councillor and mayor...