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...approached two police officers, who offered to call an ambulance or drive her home. A few blocks away, some of the crowd formed a knot around an ambulance, where paramedics tended to two people who sat on the curb with their heads wrapped in white bandages. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg later said that one person died of cardiac arrest, several firefighters suffered minor injuries and some "20-odd civilians" had been hurt, some seriously, some less...
There was no reason to believe that the incident was nothing more than "a failure of our infrastructure," the mayor said at a press conference about two and half hours after the explosion. "No terrorism... No criminality." According to Con Ed, the incident was caused by an operational problem in the area. Millions of pounds of steam course through pipes below New York City streets every hour, heating and cooling thousands of buildings. They can be prone to breakage: in 1989, a massive steam explosion that sent mud and refuse several stories high killed three people. Bloomberg said that...
Other fellows include Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Mayor William P. Purcell of Nashville, Tenn., Noelia Rodriguez, the former director of communications and press secretary to Laura Bush, and E. Clay Shaw, a U.S. Representative from Florida...
...residents have long taken umbrage at their lack of political power. Until 1975, when it elected its first 20th-century mayor, the city was effectively governed by Congress, which to this day still has to approve the city's budget. Three years later, a constitutional amendment that would have made D.C. a state passed Congress, only to fail ratification in 1985 after receiving support from only 16 other states. In 2000, the city instituted a new slogan on its license plates: "Taxation Without Representation." (President Bush eventually traded in his limo tags for ones without the slogan...
...approval from Pat Robertson and James Dobson. But at the same time, Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to avoid talking about his Mormonism, John McCain's religious advisors quit his campaign in disgust, and when the AP inquired as to what church Rudy Giuliani attended, the former mayor essentially told them to mind their own business...