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...there, and having no street names adds to the Arabs' perception that in Israeli society they are either invisible, nonexistent or branded terrorists. Abu Walid Dajani, a hotel owner whose family has lived in Jerusalem for more than 700 years, recalls writing to Olmert when the Prime Minister was mayor of Jerusalem, outlining the daily humiliations those in East Jerusalem face. "If all our problems are related to security," he asked cynically, "why don't we have a mayor in army uniform?" Olmert, says Dajani, expressed sympathy--but the hotelier insists that the Arabs' second-class status remains unchanged...
...much of his 12-years in office, former French President Jacques Chirac successfully brushed off press allegations and legal inquiries into suspected corruption during his earlier reign as mayor of Paris by citing constitutional immunity. Now six months out of the Elysée, and its executive protection, Chirac finds himself the target of an embezzlement investigation that may wind up going to trial, with him as the key defendant...
Berlusconi's surprise announcement was in large part an attempt to respond to the fusion of the two largest parties from the ruling coalition into the newly christened Democratic Party, headed by Rome's popular mayor Walter Veltroni. But hope for any such similar merger on the center-right was quickly squashed by Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version...
...After watching their ideas die in committee for years, however, the Republicans also understood the value of working together. In Manchester, the majority party on the Board of Directors picks the mayor from among its members. While Lou Spadaccini, the Republican leader, had won the most votes of any candidate in two previous elections, he had never become mayor because of his lackluster running mates, to voters’ dismay...
...Moreover, the Democrats didn’t run as a team, but as a group of mayoral candidates. Because the highest vote-winner of the majority party is traditionally named mayor, many voters, the Journal Inquirer reports, appear to have voted for only one of the Democratic candidates, instead of all six of them, to improve his or her chance of becoming mayor. Unfortunately for the Democrats, this so-called “bullet voting” cost them the election...