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" First of all, congratulations to former Boston Phoenician David Bernstein for scooping the damn world on the news that Boston Mayor Tom Menino would not be running for a sixth term. You have to love a newspaper that&amp;#039;s still breaking big stories two weeks after it folded. Menino is the last of the really powerful big-city mayors, a throwback to the days when the clout wielded by mayors was real, and not rhetorical. (If national politicians had to depend as much on a number of urban political machines as they once did, we wouldn&amp;#039;t be having the trouble we&amp;#039;re having at the moment passing rational gun-control laws, to use only one obvious example.) He became powerful despite the fact that his ongoing sumo match with English always ended badly. Eventually, it became something of a trademark. But it never obscured the fact that he had made himself as bulletproof a politician as there was. And he was not shy about putting his muscle to work outside the city. If you like the notion of Elizabeth Warren as a U.S. senator, you can send him a small card. His health is undoubtedly what did him in, and now we will have an old-fashioned hooley in the next mayoral election. But it will be 20 years, if at all, that we wind up with another Tom Menino, who proved that syntax is not always the measure of political power. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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