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Article: POLS & POLITICS.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 21, 2001
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THE BUZZ; Menino meets the press - Bounces Brit heckler out of room
Boston's oh-so-humble mayor, Thomas M. Menino, likes to think he can strong-arm the press - we just didn't know he might be thinking literally.
Take the scene at a press conference Menino and other members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors were hosting in Washington Thursday.
The Capitol Hilton event, meant to roll out a list of agenda items the mayors wanted President Bush to hone in on during his first 100 days, brought just a smattering of D.C. reporters. Along for the event was the mayor of London, Kenneth Livingstone, the first democratically elected mayor of the monarchy's ...