Word: politician
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...epilogue containing Ackermann's advice to council newcomers seems similarly out-of-place. "You the Mayor?" is most intriguing when it describes Ackermann's development as a politician, instead of the lessons she learns. By adopting the tactics of fiction, Ackermann prepares her readers for more than they...
...writing "You the Mayor?": The Education of a City Politician, a reflection on her political career, Ackermann says she tried to retain a stranger's perspective...
ALTHOUGH few would contest Tsongas' goal of increasing this country's economic competitiveness, some criticize the referendum as a means of achieving it. "The referendum is unsound, and for a sophisticated politician like Paul, remarkably simplistic," says State Rep. Stephen W. Doran (D-Lexington). He termed the referendum, which would automatically set the annual level of education expenditure, "an anti-government approach to government...
...islands idolized Jefferson but patterned themselves after the master manipulators of the time. Chief among them: the autocratic American darling, Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippines, and his prominent partner, Douglas MacArthur, perhaps the archetypal American for all Filipinos. These influences helped produce the quintessential Philippine politician of the later 20th century: Ferdinand Marcos...
...white voters. Washington had done this, but Evans could not even get the support of the Black community because he was running in opposition to interim Mayor Eugene Sawyer, a Black man, whose supporters did not take so kindly to Evans saying that he was the one Black politician who could carry on the Washington agenda...