Politicians think they know, of course. Ask Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York, why his city has made such strides in beating crime that it accounts for fully a quarter of the national decline. He will cite his policy of "zero tolerance". This concept, which sprang from a famous ...
Anthony Weiner is irritated there are still people who aren't ready to take him seriously. Two years after resigning from Congress in disgrace after tweeting photos of his crotch to several women and then falsely claiming a hacker had victimized him, he's running for mayor of New York-...
29. David Dinkins -- Mayor of New York City; 30. Oscar Arias -- President of Costa Rico; 31. Audrey McLaughlin -- Leader, NDP, Canada; 32. George Fernandes -- Minister of Transportation, India; 33. Carlos Salinas -- President of Mexico; ...
history. With the longest TV career of a female entertainer, she even had an honorary title as the 4th Mayor of Hollywood! With a net worth of $45 million, she was considered to be one of the first trailblazers in the entertainment industry, as one of the first women to act...
As a journalist, I’ve always been intrigued by the unique experiences, sights and sounds of individual lives, a billion stories waiting to be told. Immigrants who’ve traveled to a new country always have their idiosyncratic cache of memories, of a past which belongs only to themselves. ...
Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "When the day of infamy came, Giuliani seized it as if he had been waiting for it all his life, taking on half a dozen critical roles and performing each masterfully," Time said. ...
Étienne de Boré (1741–1820), first mayor of New Orleans following the Louisiana Purchase Homer Plessy (1862–1925), of thePlessy v FergusonSupreme Court decision The views at this Oakland cemetery are tough to beat © jmoor17 / Getty Images ...
The organisation of the practice is quite flat, with a lot of decentralised responsibility, however we have a lot of internal dialogue about the most important, key steering parameters in our office. I think you can define our office a bit like a city, where I am the mayor, and the othe...
Still, Bloomberg’s defenders say that his record speaks for itself. As New York’s mayor, and in the years since, Bloomberg has donated tens of millions of dollars to support reproductive rights and women’s health causes around the world, his aides told the Times. He also, as mayor, ...
Mayor La Guardia opens the First Avenue Retail Market, 1938 (Museum of the City of New York). The first to close was actually the longest-standing public market in New York City. The Washington Market had existed in one form or another since 1813, and it underwent major renovations in 194...