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...heard the rumblings early on, and knew the risks of contagion were high - especially given the TV attention," says Nicolas Perruchot, a Blois native who was so taken aback by project rioting in late 2000 that he led a law-and-order campaign for mayor that unseated long-time office holder, Socialist Jack Lang in March 2001. Though Perruchot has also mounted urban renovation programs to improve public housing, and used tax exemptions to lure business and jobs out to the projects, he says he was elected on promises to restore order, by residents of the city center and northern...
...Facts: If you’re going to be working on a losing campaign anyways, you might as well let Harvard compensate you for your lost time and heartache. Past recipients of the Director’s Fellowship have worked for the Lord Mayor of London (jolly), New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (strategic), or Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (astounding). On the Summer Stipend, students can work for political campaigns, take non-lucrative government internships, or go abroad for unpaid State Department jobs...
...after he unseated New York's Governor Mario Cuomo, George Pataki -- Republican state legislator, onetime mayor of the small city of Peekskill, former political nobody -- was promising to stick to his promises. Yes, he said at his first postvictory press conference, he would definitely sign a bill approving capital punishment, something Cuomo had repeatedly vetoed. And no, he would not back off from his pledge to cut state taxes 25% over four years. Pataki didn't need to be reminded that by talking tough on crime and pocketbook issues, Republicans had just picked up at least a dozen governorships...
...American imam becomes de facto mayor of his Muslim community. A line of congregants often stretches outside Magid's office filled with followers asking for all kinds of help. Finding love, for example, can be difficult for observant Muslims scattered in U.S. cities; Islam forbids physical contact in dating or cruising for mates in nightclubs that serve alcohol. A breathless young man once phoned Magid in the middle of the night to ask if he could perform a marriage in a parking lot "right now" so the suitor and the woman in his car wouldn't feel guilty about what...
RUDY GIULIANI 2001 Former Mayor of New York City and chairman of Giuliani Partners...