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Each of the councilors was escorted by an usher, either a relatives or a friend. Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who began his 13th term, had an honor guard of four grandchildren, which caused 14-tern incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci to remark. "I thought seriously of bringing my grandchildren. Mr. Chairman, but there are 33 of them...
...reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would be stripped of his job as chairman of the powerful building and zoning committee and of his ceremonial post as president pro tern of the council. "That's when I knew it would be war," Vrdolyak told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There's the mayor, the new guy on the block, telling me I'm out. So I say to myself, I thought this guy was just mayor. But he thinks...
...long legs, lavish curves, blond hair, pleasant disposition and cagerness to experiment sexually cannot hold Michael's attention. Hater Lina (Valerie Quennessen), a be witching French archeologist from the village down the street who fits Mike's bill as the perfect zipless fuck--there's really no more appropriate tern for it then that one, coined by novelist Erica long...
...full terms. That is disquieting. Assassinations and forced retirements inject an odd sense of foreboding into presidential politics. There is the ghost of a thought that Americans are growing so impatient and unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like the late Roman Empire: an ungovernable mess with a short attention span, restlessly chucking its leaders...
...state. Racing from site to site by foot, van and plane, the four were really humming. From the great crested flycatcher all the way to the least grebe, they totted up tally after tally. The black-bellied whistling duck, the Swainson's warbler, the pileated woodpecker, the Caspian tern, the chachalaca and the dickcissel were all sighted, and all, says Peterson, were "old friends either by sight or sound." In the end the total was 235, beating the old mark by four species. Peterson's advice to would-be birders: "Three things-go with a friend who knows...