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...been an unusual season of political sex scandals, but Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's is particularly lurid: there are allegations of parties featuring strippers at the mayoral mansion and explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and his alleged mistress who was, until recently, his chief of staff. But Kilpatrick seems to be taking his cues more from Senators Larry Craig and David Vitter than from New York governor Eliot Spitzer: he isn't going down without a big fight. Already, the Wayne County, Mich., prosecutor has suggested that Detroit city lawyers are rebuffing her efforts to obtain key evidence...
...reaction is, O.K., now since it's over, it has no effect, it's not binding, let's get back to work.' KWAME KILPATRICK, mayor of Detroit, on the city council's nonbinding call for his resignation. Text messages surfaced in January that proved the embattled mayor had lied under oath about an affair with his chief of staff...
...result was the respectable showing of pragmatic conservatives opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and their emerging alliance with reformists. Tehran's Mayor Mohammed Qalibaf, a likely challenger in next year's presidential election, says a centrist bloc is taking shape. "Our people are tired of extremism," he told TIME. Many are tired of Ahmadinejad, too; the economy is a shambles and his abrasive foreign policy has choked off foreign investment...
...been at the center of back-and-forth negotiations after he narrowly won a contract extension by a 4-3 school committee vote in January. The committee continued these negotiations in a private executive session after last night’s regular meeting. After the meeting, recently elected Mayor E. Denise Simmons—the swing vote in favor of Fowler-Finn’s contract extension in January—said that “you don’t want to rush something that’s so important.” Walser lauded Fowler-Finn?...
...months, long enough to build affiliations with the local people. This strategy proved much more successful than basing troops for short stints in cities where neither they nor the local people were familiar with each other. When McMaster’s regiment was designated to leave Tal Afar, the Mayor of Tal Afar wrote a letter requesting that the regiment stay another year. The mayor spoke highly of McMaster and his squadron commander, Lt. Colonel Chris Hickey, whom the mayor said knew the names of his children. These may be simple tokens, but they go a long way in enhancing...