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...again, so have the worst. Fiorello LaGuardia, who ruled New York from 1934 to '45, besides reforming and rebuilding his city, was famous for smashing slot machines with a sledgehammer and reading the comics to children over the radio during a newspaper strike. On the other hand, Chicago's William (Big Bill) Thompson, first elected in 1915, kept a picture of his good buddy Al Capone on his office wall and once conducted a debate between himself and two white rats, which he placed onstage to represent his political opponents...
Instant celebrity did not ruffle the six-month-old cover girl. But her parents, William and Kathleen Harap of Queens Village, N.Y., were both elated and surprised. As Lisa's mother Kathleen, 32, said last week, "We thought the photographs were just for a story illustration, not the cover. Then weeks and weeks went by. When the issue came out, we nearly missed...
...still be seen on TV. It is used in a series of commercials for the magazine, including one that shows a man on a park bench reading the issue while an infant nearby stares at Lisa's picture. "Every time one of those ads runs," says Lisa's father William, 34, a New York City policeman, "we get phone calls from friends, and the guys at the precinct will say, 'Hey, I saw Lisa on TV again last night...
...FEEL ABOUT ANTONIN SCALIA OR CLARENCE THOMAS BECOMING CHIEF JUSTICE IF WILLIAM REHNQUIST DECIDES TO RESIGN...
...sure, Coulter is far from the most accomplished conservative presence in America today. Even post-OxyContin, Limbaugh has greater reach; Sean Hannity has his own TV show; old-guard guys like William Kristol and George Will have more power in Washington. Countless conservative scholars--Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Richard Posner--write with greater intellectual heft...