Mr. Bloomberg — who persuaded the City Council to amend a law that would have restricted him to two terms and then spent some $90 million of his personal fortune on his campaign — decisively defeated Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., his Democratic rival.
Had Mr. Bloomberg purchased an equivalent role in a government opposed by DC he’d now be the target of a coup d’état. Ain’t democracy grand?
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Reuter's freelance photographer, Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, held without charge by the U.S. since September 2008
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