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Depending on your definition of "Major U.S. City," Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland, Ore., is not necessarily the first openly gay man to lead a major U.S. city [Feb. 9]. That designation may more deservedly go to David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, R.I., elected in 2002. Portland's population is bigger, but Providence is its state's capital. That's pretty major in its own right. Rick Carson, ST. PETERSBURG...
This kind of behavior, contends McCulley, is what the paradox of thrift demands. "Uncle Sam has got to go the other direction and lever up his balance sheet and actually spend money," he says. Simply standing by and letting the downward economic spiral worsen strikes him as "inconsistent with a civilized society...
Before Facebook, there was TheSpark; and before Mark Zuckerberg, there was a posse of Harvard Grads carving out a crimson corner on the Web. Sam A. Yagan ’99 and the other founders of SparkNotes have struck gold again with OkCupid.com, an online dating site for the younger set. FM sat down with the seasoned Web savant just in time for Valentine?...
...Sam Yagan: I started my first company while I was a senior on campus. When I started at Harvard I definitely did ultimately envision myself being an Internet entrepreneur, I just didn’t realize to what extent...
America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...