EDITORIAL SWEET DREAMS RUNNING THE COUNTRY CAN TIRE A MAYOR OUT.HE was not sleeping! Aides for Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. vociferously deny that the L.A. mayor was catching some well-needed Z's during President George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). W. Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday Tuesday: see week. night, despite a Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. Post photo in which Villaraigosa and several others nearby were resting their eyes. No, no. He might have been tired from an unexpected red-eye flight A red-eye flight is a flight operated by an airline late at night or very early in the morning, during the period from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time. The term "red-eye" derives from the fatigue symptom of having red eyes. Red-eye flights are often called a "dry flight". to Washington, D.C., but he just had his eyes closed, they said. Although we expect the aides to fib to protect their boss if he had been napping, we actually believe them this time. Everyone knows that the cameras might light upon anyone in the audience at anytime, and Villaraigosa's got too much at stake for his future career to be caught asleep at the wheel for a national audience. Besides, even a delayed flight, a long speech and time difference couldn't defeat the Energizer mayor. But even if Villaraigosa had been snoozing, who could really blame him? The L.A. mayor's been really, really busy lately, what with leading the city, taking over the school district and, it appears from his latest endeavor, running the country, too. After coming up with a national education policy for fighting poverty and helping the middle class, which he unveiled Thursday to the National Press, he must be bone-tired! |
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