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...academy, the mayor continues to get reports that friends and colleagues of his have perished--including Barbara Olson, the wife of U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson and an old friend of Giuliani...
...first, the mayor's office tried to prevent the Ground Zero District from growing into a spectacle. The chain link fence surrounding the site was covered with a thick green tarp that blocked the view, and police threatened to snatch cameras. "For the first several weeks, I didn't want anyone down there. It was a very personal feeling," says Richard Sheirer, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees the site. But after realizing the overwhelming demand to get a glimpse of the hole, the office reversed its policy. The tarp came down, the fences were...
Meet the Press? Who'd have thunk it? There she was, the first First Lady to mix it up with Tim Russert, not to mention with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, over whether the President was put on earth to lead us after 9/11 (intermittently Rudy's Catholic view of his mayorship) or whether God is less specific (her modest Methodist take). The least ambitious First Lady in recent memory, save perhaps Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Bush recalls the pact she made upon her engagement: she would join her husband on his daily jogs; he would never ask her to give a speech...
...whose death touched off three days of riots in late April. "I still don't know the truth," said Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure. "I still have no satisfaction." Leisure has filed wrongful-death and civil rights suits naming the police and Roach. Scattered violence followed the verdict, and Mayor Charlie Luken imposed a curfew. But the city has largely remained calm...
...mayor, who recently won re-election, is trying to do that through a committee of business and local leaders called Community Action Now. Says he: "While we're not the Promised Land, we're making great progress and moving in the right direction. I think everyone's tired of fighting." Still, the effort is off to a bumpy start. White recently canned the most outspoken can member, the Rev. Damon Lynch, after he called for an economic boycott of the city. In addition, the chairman of the Citizen's Police Review Panel, Keith Borders, resigned, citing the city's lack...