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TIME consulted with urban experts to choose the best among the leaders of America's most challenging cities, those with populations over half a million--a crop that brings in six Republicans, 22 Democrats and one unaffiliated mayor. That cutoff excluded mayors like Randy Kelly of St. Paul, Minn. (pop. 288,000), who has slashed crime 30% in 3 1/2 years. Our top performers range from Chicago's imperial Richard Daley, who after 16 years is widely viewed as the nation's top urban executive, to newcomer John Hickenlooper, the beer brewer who closed Denver's worst budget gap ever...
Jimmy Kimmel Live - The ABC late-night host's answer to E!'s Jackson re-enactments? The trial dramatized by a cast of puppies as the pop singer and his legal team...
...assaults that were bound to alarm the country's Sandinista rulers. Outside the village of La Palmita, 80 miles north of Managua, the capital, the rebels ambushed a military convoy, killing 29 government soldiers. Over the next two days, on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Esteli (pop. 75,000), they damaged two bridges on Nicaragua's main artery, part of the north-south Pan-American Highway. Then in midweek they staged their most ambitious raid this year. Shortly after daybreak, several hundred insurgents swarmed into La Trinidad, a small town near Esteli. For three hours they shelled...
Squalid conditions, poverty and a semitropical environment may also play a role in the high rate of AIDS in Haiti and, oddly enough, in parts of southeastern Florida. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000), Fla., with 46 cases, has the highest incidence in the U.S. "There is raw sewage on the ground and rats running all around," says Dr. Mark Whiteside of Miami's Tropical Medicine Clinic. Filth, insects and a high rate of tuberculosis, he suggests, might contribute to the epidemic...
...mayor isn't there to sit and worry about keeping his job. He's there to do what's best for the people." So proclaims His Honor, Brian Zimmerman, 12, the mayor of Crabb, Texas (pop. 400, dripping wet). Elected in September 1983, Zimmerman is a lifelong student of government who made just one campaign promise: the incorporation of Crabb to hold off annexation by hovering Houston. The town will vote on the idea this week at the Crabb grocery store owned by his grandmother. If the measure passes, young Zimmerman will be out of a job because Texas...