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...Real Met fans have realized that the vast majority of Yankee fans are obnoxious jerks. We’ve realized that the presence of the Yankees makes finding counterfeit Met caps at the corner store impossible and that there is nothing fun about being treated like a second-class citizen in your own city because you wear the orange and blue. So we’ve learned to root against the Yanks in the postseason, and you can tell who the real diehards are because they’ve continued to root against the Bronx Bombers in this, the city?...
Describing himself instead as a “citizen candidate,” Williamson says that while he hopes to get votes in next Tuesday’s election, he has no illusions about being elected...
While Wiliamson does not expect to be elected, he still holds strong opinionsabout the council and how the city operates, saying the main issue facing the city is the loss of citizen control of the government...
...Citizen power and real democracy are what’s important to me,” Williamson says. “People are more satisfied if they are really participating...
...American diplomatic source characterized Belgium's laggard cooperation with U.S. efforts to catch terrorists. Since Belgian police arrested two men two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, American officials have pleaded for hard information (phone numbers, addresses, travel itineraries) on one of the men, Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian citizen suspected to have been the designated suicide bomber for a planned attack on the American embassy in Paris. Belgian officials say the U.S. did not properly request the Trabelsi dossier until Sept. 27. It took weeks after that, they say, to scan the documents, which were "the thickness of seven phone...