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...consigned our live record to this store, and they would buy 50 of them and sell them,” she says.Contributing to the carnival atmosphere, two twenty-something women dressed in little more than sheets stood on footstools waiting to be painted by Newbury Comics patrons. Sarah E. Paterson and Amandacera Hannon are just two of the Dolls’ cult of street-performer fans known as The Dirty Business Brigade who follow the band on tour and provide extra vaudevillian touches to already chaotically theatrical shows. “I first had the idea back...
ALBANY, N.Y. David Paterson replaces Eliot Spitzer as New York governor...
...bigger blow to discover that Spitzer was a crooked man wearing an honest man’s mask than if we had known him to be crooked all along. New York is surely weary of sanctimonious politicians who say one thing and do another. Incoming governor David A. Paterson has inherited a difficult situation from Eliot Spitzer, but hopefully he will assume the office with the transparency and honesty that his predecessor lacked...
Meanwhile, Spitzer's enemies were doing their best to disguise their glee. In Albany, his arch-rival Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, told TIME that he looked forward to working with the new chief executive, Lt. Governor David Paterson who officially succeeds Spitzer on Monday. Says Bruno: "I know he is in an entirely different frame of mind" than Spitzer, who "was a prosecutor and had that mentality. That doesn't work as CEO." Bruno, who will retain his post as Senate Majority Leader while assuming the duties - but not the title - of Lieutenant Governor, had only good words...
Amid the uncertainties, it seems clear Paterson's geniality represents a welcome change in Albany. "He's not a bully," says Perkins. "But he's not a pushover, either." If he is to succeed, he must be neither. Just weeks into his term, Spitzer famously dubbed himself a "steamroller" (an appellation he preceded with an expletive). The critical challenge for his successor is not to get steamrolled...