Word: mayor
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Meanwhile, south of the Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James...
...Senate from the Empire State but won--and New York likes high-wattage celebrities a lot. Hillary was an immediate hit in the city and environs, and when she worked hard Upstate, she became something of a hit there too. Her presumptive opponent was New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, but a diagnosis of prostate cancer, coming in the same season as a separation from his wife and the revelation of a relationship with another woman, forced him to forgo the race. The enthusiastic Rick Lazio from Long Island got whomped by Hillary, 56% to 44. At the Democratic convention...
...March, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani epitomized the spoofing spirit of the media mafia's Inner Circle dinner. Things got heavier fast as the mayor learned he had prostate cancer, revealed he had a girlfriend, separated from his wife and nixed his prospective U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton...
...first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings...
...arrive in the staid if picturesque French village of Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp), who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways...