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...years that none of the nation's four largest cities have a black mayor. But Minneapolis, which is 78% white, elected its first black (and first woman) mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton. In Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term in Cleveland. Detroit's overwhelmingly black electorate chose Archer despite McPhail's charges that...
With its entire rotation returning from a squad that went 22-5 last year and swept through the Ivy League undefeated, Penn looks like a lock for its second consecutive conference championship...
Hayden said the site is vulnerable to fires like those that have recently swept southern California. Environmentalists are hoping the site will be used as a visitor center for the wilderness lands that surround...
...Tigers swept the fatigued Crimson in the second match...
Pretty soon, however, I was swept into the rhythm of her words, and I understood everything without understanding a word of what she was saying. With a deft turn of my hand, she doomed me to four children, did I understand? She went on like a whirlwind, about family, and success, and friends, and the future, and before I knew it, she threw the ball in my court. "Do you have any questions...