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...brief moments last year, Richard M. Daley actually looked vulnerable heading into his current campaign for a sixth - count 'em - term as Chicago's mayor. Four of his closest aides, included his patronage chief, were convicted last summer on corruption charges, while a federal probe of the city's hiring practices continued. Around the same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing...
...west, was a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bill Clinton, as was Dave Freudenthal, the Governor of Wyoming. Ken Salazar was Colorado's attorney general before winning his Senate seat. "I could never have gotten elected back East," says John Hickenlooper, a former geologist and microbrewery owner who was elected mayor of Denver in his first try for public office. "You don't have a complicated political superstructure out here. You don't have to wait your turn to run for office. Outside the Latino community, ethnicity doesn't count for much. Nobody cares who your grandparents were...
...west, was a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bill Clinton, as was Dave Freudenthal, the Governor of Wyoming. Ken Salazar was Colorado's attorney general before winning his Senate seat. "I could never have gotten elected back East," says John Hickenlooper, a former geologist and microbrewery owner who was elected mayor of Denver in his first try for public office. "You don't have a complicated political superstructure out here. You don't have to wait your turn to run for office. Outside the Latino community, ethnicity doesn't count for much. Nobody cares who your grandparents were...
...within weeks after he arrived, Petraeus staged elections for a city council and began to disburse funds to clean schools, reopen factories, fix potholes and establish recreation programs. He was, in effect, the mayor of Mosul. The tactics Petraeus used were well known to a tiny cadre of military intellectuals in the Pentagon: they were classic counterinsurgency methods, and they were scorned by most of the brass (and by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld), who thought that nation building was a job for social workers, not soldiers. Even though counterinsurgency seemed to be working in Mosul, the Pentagon wasn...
...certainly seemed that way this week, when the night before our President went before the nation to unveil his new Iraq plan, our second-term mayor, Ray Nagin - a charismatic, often glib leader whom many see as disengaged - unveiled a plan to battle a wave of violence that threatens to spin out of control. Like the reception Bush got, Nagin's move was instantly criticized as too little, too late...