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...work but not quite ready to hit the hay. Pointing to some shrubbery in the corner, Foley said, "See those bushes over there? Last week at a party, Phil Crane was on his hands and knees throwing up in those bushes." Crane was a senior, archconservative Republican congressman from Chicago who entered alcohol treatment in 2000 and lost his re-election bid in 2004. Whether this was a dramatic touch or a true story is unclear. Asked about the tale today, Crane laughed. "Oh, geez, I don't recall any such incident. I don't recall even being...
Over the course of a long career, Barenboim has both played with and conducted the world’s premier orchestras, most recently the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he left last July after a 15-year tenure...
...errs badly by making virtually no mention of more promising black leaders like Senator Barack Obama, a politician so scholastic and intellectually-serious that he spent a decade teaching law at the University of Chicago. Two years ago, the charismatic Illinois Democrat stood before an audience of millions and proclaimed, “Children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations, and turn off the television sets, and eradicate the slander that a black youth with a book is acting white.” Such a message, one would think, should be music to Williams?...
...Even candidates whose campaigns are focused on local isues were eager to show off their international credentials on Tuesday night. "I lived in Japan for three years. I speak the language," said Daniel Seals, a 34-year-old African-American from Chicago (billed in advance of his call to the Paris crowd as possibly the next Barack Obama) who is trying to unseat Mark Kirk, the three-term Republican representative from Illinois' 10th Congressional District, in the city's tony North Shore suburbs. To the Americans in Europe, Seals was pitch-perfect, insisting that "Rumsfeld needs to go" and saying...
...York City Health Department unveiled a proposal last week that would require restaurants to eliminate all trans fats from their menus. Chicago has also proposed a similar ban but the measure would only apply to companies with annual revenues of more than $20 million, specifically targeting fast-food chains...