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...watches as bigwigs from Boston and Harvard, including Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the University’s top community relations official, cut the ribbon on the project—which had been paid for partly by a Harvard affordable housing fund...
...cities and states, which were counting on $3.5 billion from the feds for training personnel to respond to terrorist attacks. When Washington issued an orange alert last September, Detroit had to pull police from regular duty to guard the city's bridge and tunnel to Canada. Complains Karen Anderson, mayor of Minnetonka, Minn., and president of the National League of Cities: "Right now, we need more than new nameplates and organization charts...
Giuliani, who has called WorldCom a big "challenge," apparently has not made up his mind about how involved he would be. But WorldCom is not the only troubled company he has his eye on. Sources tell TIME that Giuliani Partners, the ex-mayor's consulting firm, is mapping out a broader role as a consultant to scandal-tarred companies like Adelphia and Tyco. No clients have yet been signed, but a major one will be announced within weeks, a source says. Giuliani Partners is also helping global real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield vet for security problems. And it hopes...
...what benefit could "America's Mayor" get from helping rescue WorldCom? For a man with possible presidential aspirations, the move has advantages. It would allow him to stay in the spotlight and, if he helps turn the company around, be a hero again. Yet Giuliani may learn that messing with the debt of bankrupt companies is not necessarily a career-enhancing move. The distressed-debt market is a playground for vulture investors, a place to parlay others' misfortunes into personal wealth. How would that resonate with voters? --By Daniel Kadlec
Organizers plan visits to the neighborhoods and speakers from the Chinese Progressive Association, the Graduate School of Education, the Boston City Council and the School of Public Health’s Violence Prevention Program. Former Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay ’55 is also scheduled to address the class...