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This change would make it easier for someone like former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a pro-choice Republican, to run for national political office, Kristol said...
...also highly classified and closely guarded. Under the aegis of the White House's Counterterrorism Security Group, part of the National Security Council, the suspected nuke was kept secret so as not to panic the people of New York. Senior FBI officials were not in the loop. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he was never told about the threat. In the end, the investigators found nothing and concluded that DRAGONFIRE's information was false. But few of them slept better. They had made a chilling realization: if terrorists did manage to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the city, there...
...visit, fighting an instinct to join in Lowell's boosterism of Father Spagnolia and his crusade. When he held his press conference last Monday to announce that "I have done nothing" and "I demand due process," hundreds of children and adults filled the church pews. The city's mayor, Rita Mercier, a St. Patrick's parishioner, stood by her pastor: "He reminds me of myself. He's a fighter too." "Do you believe him?" my brother Kevin asked me an hour after my two-hour sit-down with Father Spagnolia. "I don't know," I said. "He offered so many...
...Meanwhile, his staff kept turning over, disillusioned by the candidate's lack of focus and refusal to stay on message. Riordan never built ties to Republican consultants when he was mayor of a big Democratic city, and the GOP folks he hired for this race kept quitting on him. Communication was a problem. His staff didn't even know about a 1991 TV interview in which the supposedly pro-choice Riordan condemned abortion as murder until newspapers reported it. Davis, who saw in Riordan a moderate Republican who was his most dangerous potential opponent in the general election, jumped...
...been chased off the stage by stone-throwing fundamentalists. He was forced into exile by countless death threats. He has even been taken to the Israeli Supreme Court by a small-town mayor trying to silence his voice. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled in his favor, and most of the public has learned to embrace his music and tolerate his mannerisms, if not to accept his message. Amidst this controversy one thing is clear—the packed Paine Hall loved...