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When charismatic lawyer and former Board of Education President William Thompson was sworn in as New York City's first African American comptroller, the excitement among city residents was palpable. Thompson was sworn in by his father, a judge, who alluded to the possibility of one day swearing in his son as the city's second African American mayor, following former mayor David Dinkins. Tongues began to wag immediately as residents and pundits wondered aloud whether the city's brand-new chief financial officer would cut short his tenure for a mayoral bid in 2005, or whether he would serve out his term as comptroller.
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Spring is a good time to embrace change, both within us and outside us. Oscar Wilde, the 19th century English writer, said the only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. The systems that fail, he said, are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
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| Final Word |
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Two bookends of my life passed away this year. I never met either, and it's a sure bet they never met each other.
Raw-boned and country-mean, Robert M. Shelton, the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, came to symbolize the very spectre of the Klan. However, when he first came my way, Shelton was a mere acolyte of the murderous Tuscaloosa Knights.
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