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...mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg cut Big Apple crime. Booker took a huge risk because in Newark, McCarthy had two strikes against him. First, he's white. In a majority-black city fraught with racial tension between residents and police officers, that was sure to anger some locals. Second, he's not from Newark, a provincial town accustomed to giving plum public-sector jobs to its own. So here comes this Ivy League mayor reared in the suburbs entrusting the police department to a white outsider? Political suicide, anyone? "If you're a white Irish cop from New York...
...says. "At this point, I'm committed to two terms, and at the end of those two terms, if I stay in politics, I will look at other offices." (New Jersey will have a governor's race in 2013, near the end of what could be Booker's second term as Newark mayor...
...Wilson encountered this dilemma in 1991, as did Gray Davis in 2003. Now it's Arnold Schwarzenegger's turn to try to wrestle a highly partisan legislature into slashing enough programs to eliminate a towering deficit. Having raised taxes by $12.8 billion in February, the governor balked at a second hike...
Chone Figgins is fun to watch on the base paths—he stole second and third in the bottom of the eighth to set himself up to score the Angels’ tenth run of the game, earning all fans ten free wings at Claim Jumpers...
...will be only the second case to see trial under the landmark Digital Theft Deterrence Act—which imposes up to $150,000 in penalties for each instance of willful copyright infringement. Approximately 30,000 people have settled fines averaging $3,000 to $12,000 out of court since the law's passage in 1999. The first case tried in court ended in a mistrial...