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Though the barriers kept many protesters away from the rally, I believe that cop’s explanation and see the hindrance to mass protest as an effect of, rather than the reasoning behind, the police’s tactics. To the police and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, there were a whole lot of people trying to take over the streets and make a mess. And so they decided to take over the streets first, by force when necessary, even though they just made the same mess themselves...
...Mayor of a Small Town
...city officials say they have spent $10 million on helicopters, protective suits and beefed-up border patrols. But other needs, including a communications system that would allow the city's emergency teams to talk with one another and their Canadian counterparts, have been shelved until federal help arrives. Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says he has pleaded for more money. "It's very frustrating," he says. Smaller cities have fared even worse, with many forced to spend money on basic equipment they expected the feds would pay for. Says Donald L. Plusquellic, mayor of Akron, Ohio: "If you had told...
...DIED. ELEANOR DALEY, 95, widow of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley; in Chicago. Daley was matriarch of a political family that includes sons William M. Daley, a former U.S. commerce secretary, and Richard M. Daley, Chicago's current mayor. Although rarely in the public eye, Daley campaigned behind the scenes for her husband, who ran the city for 21 years, and sons...
...close of World War II, Mailer was in the Pacific; during the 1950s, he was part of Greenwich Village counterculture; when Vietnam arrived, he was protesting it; in the 1980s, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City. Beyond penning the novels for which he is chiefly known, he founded and named The Village Voice, directed several films, and became one of the original exponents of New Journalism—a style that blurs the line between journalism and narrative fiction. “Repetition kills the soul,” Mailer writes in one of the book?...