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...TIME Man of the Year Rudy Guiliani hawked his book, er, gave the opening night speech at BookExpo, at a huge cocktail party thrown by his publisher, Talk Miramax. Hizzoner's book, "Leadership," will be published in October. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein introduced the former mayor with gusto. "I love reading!" declared Weinstein. "I love the smell of bookstores! I have a day job where people don't read...
...stylish grandmother of five who wears Armani suits and a permanent moonbeam smile, Pelosi, 62, grew up in Baltimore, Md., where both her father and brother served as mayor. She moved to California in 1969 with her husband, a San Francisco investment banker, and toiled as a party activist and fundraiser before running for Congress in 1987. Her signature issues--human rights, aids funding, environmental protection--put her as far as any Representative from DeLay, a pro-business Christian conservative from Sugar Land, Texas, whose nickname is "the Hammer" because of his take-no-prisoners approach to politics...
...underdog to both Democratic candidates, Bob Casey Jr. and Ed Rendell. The two Democrats are better known. Casey is the son of a former governor and has the support of upstate blue-collar Democrats. He's pro-labor and pro-life. Ed Rendell is the pragmatic former Philadelphia mayor who appeals to the state's New Democrats and independents. These two candidates have been locked in a dead heat for months. And no matter who wins their May 21st primary, that nominee is predicted to have an advantage over Fisher. That was very nearly not the case...
Interestingly, this xenophobic bias is not isolated to Le Pen and his horde, as even Chirac has derisively complained about Paris’ African and Arab immigrants. As the Mayor of Paris, he reportedly grumbled about “the overdose of immigrants,” especially their “noise and smell.” During his tenure as mayor, Chirac continued the unspoken practice of relegating poor whites and immigrants to the suburbs that border the city. Thus, Chirac’s recent landslide victory over Le Pen comes as little hope for ameliorating the very factors...
...matter how many people sign on to the petition, Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says the effort will make little difference to the city council...