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Nope. The whites do fall apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back...
Rostenkowski, 66, the son of a Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part...
Rostenkowski was born into the machine culture; his father Joe was a Chicago alderman and ward boss. After a brief fling at playing minor-league baseball, Dan served in the Illinois legislature before going to Congress in 1959. His wife LaVerne stayed in Chicago, so Rostenkowski commuted home on weekends. But for years he would stop first at city hall to brief Mayor Richard J. Daley on his doings...
...says James Fendry, head of the Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement. "We see the ban as broadcasting to gang bangers and druggies that their victims are less likely to be armed." Noting that Wisconsin has nearly 1 million licensed hunters, Fendry doesn't give the petition a chance. Nor does alderman Fredrick Gordon, who represents some of the most dangerous streets in the city. "We're not being victimized by people from the N.R.A. who use weapons to shoot deer. We're being victimized by criminals...
...site of 265 Prospect St., now a vacant lot, marks the former home of Clement Morgan, Cambridge's first Black alderman. An 1890 graduate of Harvard College who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1893, Morgan was also instrumental in the Niagara movement against segregation...