Word: historicization
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Nowhere is the new style of urban leadership more apparent than in Cleveland, where Mayor Michael White, 42, is running for a second term. He cut his political teeth as a volunteer in Stokes' historic campaign, but his approach is vastly different. "Our generation traded jeans and large Afros for...
Greatest resistance has come in the Northeast. After being listed as an endangered natural entity by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the state of Vermont has been fighting Wal-Mart with true Yankee moxie. Home Depot has likewise encountered lawsuits from the people of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Ozone...
The "Prague Spring" in 1968, a short period of relative freedom which was abruptly ended by the Soviet invasion, set Havel's political career in motion. The significance of this period in recent Czech history is equalled only by the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, during which Havel himself assumed the...
One of the commission's proposals would increase lighting outside the square's historic buildings to provide aesthetic unity. Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg said he is consulting with the city's electrician and plans to begin this project in the spring.
Of course, no one has yet outdone George Steinbrenner in the art of scamming a city. Unsatisfied with his virtually free lease of historic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, baseball's biggest brat is threatening to take his team to New Jersey. Governor Mario Cuomo has scrambled to avert this...