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...John Colone works in Hell - Hell, Michigan, that is - so he's doing his best to capitalize on the devilish date. In addition to being mayor of the town of 72, Colone owns Screams Ice Cream, where cones can be had this week for just 66 cents, and T-shirts with hellish slogans are going for $6.66. "I've Been to Hell and Back," one says...
...This is the Big Easy, and sometimes we lay back a little too much. Get off your duffs." RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, after being sworn in for a second term, prodding residents to work harder to rebuild their Katrina-ravaged city rather than wait for outside help. Nagin's swearing-in came on the first day of the 2006 hurricane season...
...ensuing weeks, McGirk and TIME's Baghdad staff members interviewed more than a dozen Haditha locals by e-mail (travel between Baghdad and Haditha is exceedingly dangerous for Iraqis, let alone foreign journalists), including the mayor, the morgue doctor and a local lawyer who negotiated a settlement between the Marines and the families under which the military agreed to pay $2,500 compensation apiece for some of the victims--mostly the women and children. Several survivors visited TIME's Baghdad bureau, including a man in his 20s whose four brothers were killed and an orphaned girl...
...authorities proposed solutions to the space crunch, no one seemed willing to lead the charge, and a consensus was hard to come by. Patrick F. Ready, the chief of police for Cambridge, wanted to ban all cars in the College except those belonging to seniors and faculty. Others, including mayor John J. Foley, looked to alternate side of the street parking as the solution. Only City Manager John J. Curry ’19 knew exactly what to do: “Tear down the Fly Club’s back yard,” he thundered at a Crimson...
...recent years, however, a suburb of Sao Paulo came up with a new approach to help curb the nation's nasty collective hangover. In Diadema, a gritty, industrial city of almost 400,000 people, Mayor Jose de Filippi Junior passed a law in 2002 that forced almost all of the city's 4,800 bars and restaurants to stop selling alcohol between the hours of 11 pm and 6 am. The effect has been stunning. Since the law kicked in, "the number of murders fell by 47.4%," said Regina Miki, the city's social-services chief. "The number of road...