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...cultural economy seriously. Its Department of Cultural Affairs has a larger annual budget - $131 million in fiscal 2006 - than the U.S. government's National Endowment for the Arts. The prospect of New York's real estate sector driving out its culture sector has the city worried. Last year Mayor Michael Bloomberg established an office to help nonprofit groups, especially those in the arts, to find affordable space and attract financing. The city's housing agency also set up a $100 million fund to help artists buy the spaces where they live and work...
...City were bywords of urban decay. In 1981, London had seen some of the most bitter riots in a century. The city was run by a hard-left political clique whose understanding of capitalism came straight from Marx. (Its leader was "Red" Ken Livingstone; some 25 years on, now mayor, he sings the praises of London's financial-services industry and is pals with New York's plutocratic leader, Michael Bloomberg.) New York almost went bankrupt in 1975; by the early 1980s, its streets were potholed, filthy and dangerous. The city routinely had nearly 2,000 homicides a year. Last...
...Huckaboom has even the admittedly lax Catholic Rudy Giuliani getting churchy. In his first church visit as a presidential candidate, the ex-mayor recently spoke at the El Rey Jesus Church in Miami. Giuliani addressed the congregation, quoting Scripture. Calling his presidential bid a "test of faith," he invoked Joshua 10: 25: "Fear not, be strong, and of good courage." Giuliani also tried to connect spiritually, insisting "I am not coming here to ask for your vote ... I am asking for your prayers." With a new poll showing the onetime GOP front runner in a four-way tie with Mike...
...Senator from Arizona) PRO: Survived 5.5 years as a POW, making him officially more badass than 50 Cent. CON: Is approximately 132 years old. Fred Thompson (Senator from Tennesse PRO: Sexiest would-be First Lady. CON: We’re just really sick of Law and Order. Rudy Giuliani (Mayor of New York City) PRO: Is an honorary knight. CON: Would probably lose in a joust to John McCain. Ron Paul (Representative from Texas) PRO: Supports legalization of medicinal marijuana—and we thought term-billing massages at UHS was awesome. CON: Libertarianism is SO Junior High...
...statement released Wednesday, Harvard spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said there are “no current discussions about or plans for change” in the ownership of the land, which was given to Harvard in the 1927 will of former Boston mayor Nathan Matthews...