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...part of a new crop of young African-American politicians--like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Illinois Senator Barack Obama--who attended élite colleges. Do you feel any kinship with them...
ENTERED REHAB. Gavin Newsom, 39, popular San Francisco mayor who became a national lightning rod in 2004 when he "legalized" same-sex marriage and presided over dozens of weddings before the state supreme court voided the unions; in the wake of reports that he had had an affair with the wife of one of his aides and his admission of alcohol abuse; in San Francisco. Though some officials called for his resignation, many declared Newsom--who is being treated as an outpatient--courageous and offered support, albeit cautiously. One member of the city's board of supervisors said...
...hear New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles Schumer and a host of business luminaries tell it, the U.S. is losing its financial edge--and the law is largely to blame...
...many groups with which Senator Barack H. Obama has to contend come election time. Following a luncheon speech given by Obama recently to an overwhelmingly white and approbatory audience, Rev. B. Herbert Martin, who served as a pastor to Chicago’s first black mayor in the 1980s, told The Washington post of his concerns over which group Obama would identify himself with come campaigning time: “Will [Obama] continue to be an African American, or will he become some kind of new creation...
...with the manager and expressed their frustration at the number of reports Kelley requests from the manager’s office at each meeting. “I do not put every question I have in the form of a policy order,” said Councillor Marjorie Decker. Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 offered a longer criticism of Kelley’s behavior. “It is my view that in one’s first term in the council, you can err on the side of needing more information because you want to fully...