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Dixon said that many in the city were receptive to her ideas as she spoke of the need to "clean house." In fact, she said, during a pre-election speech one listener responded, "don't take a broom, take a shovel...
...rivals, she was at the bottom of most polls a few weeks ago. But Dixon had a message: after 12 years in office, outgoing Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. had left the city a fiscal and moral mess. And she had a promise: "I'll clean house with a shovel, not a broom...
...Some shovel. In a stunning upset, Dixon managed to bury four opponents who had long experience in government. Enjoying the support of blacks and whites alike, she won 35% of 122,000 votes, a record turnout for an off-year election. Barry, a dedicated opponent of Dixon's, offered the sharpest post- election analysis of her victory: "Sharon Pratt Dixon represented drastic change...
Even so, the federal statute has been used to score some noticeable gains against merchants who deal in everything from "bongs" (water pipes for marijuana) to the spoons used to shovel cocaine into a user's nostrils. One such businessman, Stephen Pesce, is essentially a vile version of a Horatio Alger hero. Pesce, now 34, apparently made pot pipes as a teenager in the 1970s for a Long Island, N.Y., paraphernalia distributor now known as Main Street. He eventually took charge and built the business into one of the largest head-shop suppliers in the U.S., grossing more than...
Senior midfielder Char Joslin opened the scoring on a pretty, backhand shovel shot after receiving a pass from Clifford, who was camped behind the Cornell cage. Joslin then put a high shot by Maman before Berkery flipped a pass to senior Co-Captain Julia French for the Crimson's eighth goal...