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Gurule is certainly a unique candidate: born into poverty in Trinidad, he had his first job at age nine, herding goats. After moving to the U.S., he became a vocal political activist, arrested for--and acquitted of--carrying a concealed weapon at a 1970 antiwar rally. Now a city councilman, Gurule also owns the Community Corrections Service of Pueblo, where he's known for his no-nonsense approach to inmates...
BORN: Jan. 19, 1952, Irvington EDUCATION: Rutgers U, B.A., 1974; Seton Hall U, J.D., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Michele; two children RELIGION: Greek Orthodox MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Borough of Atlantic Highlands councilman, 1986-89; New Jersey House, 1991- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 160, Atlantic Highlands...
...private school could be a life saver. But vouchers provide opportunity for just a few of them while siphoning off tax dollars from the public system inflicted on the rest. "Just 5,000 out of 70,000 kids may be lucky enough to get a voucher," says Cleveland city councilman Roosevelt Coats. "Why should 5,000 benefit at the expense of 65,000?" The bleak answer comes from another city-council member, Fannie Lewis: "You save what...
...territory with several hundred other Muslim refugees from Doboj in April hoping he would be allowed to return home. After all, the war had ended four months earlier. Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible for the "ethnic cleansing" of several Muslim villages in the area in 1992. After flattening Esad with his thick fist, Kujundzic left him to other Serbs who pummeled him with clubs and stones until, bleeding and immobile, he was thrown back...
...great mentioner included this former Cincinnati mayor on the second tier of rumored Veep picks. The first African American to hold statewide executive office in Ohio, Blackwell has a resume that includes stints as city councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...