Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran, two high-ranking city Republican Party officials and the mayor and deputy mayor of suburban Spring Valley were arrested in a multi-pronged federal probe.
Many northern Democrats were demoralized and there was open talk in places like Tammany Hall (the New York City Democratic Party) about the need to distance themselves from slavery.
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Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran, two high-ranking city Republican Party officials and the mayor and deputy mayor of suburban Spring Valley were arrested as part of a federal investigation, watchdog groups insisted that Albany's "pay-to-play" culture must go.
But the rise of chains such as Party City also reveals a talent for creating demand where none existed before.
New Orleans may be the best party city in America aside from Las Vegas, and Super Bowl week is all about parties.
Party City also stocks photo booth kits for the Instagram crowd.
Many of the new developments are aimed not at local people, but at new, wealthy in-migrants to Newcastle who are attracted by the city's party reputation.
Next year, it seems likely that Alex Maskey, the first Sinn Fein member to be elected to Belfast City Council after the party dropped its policy of abstention in 1981, could be elected as the city's lord mayor.
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In a separate incident, the leader of a minority political party was killed Wednesday as he drove through the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a party official told CNN.
In one of its most sensitive police "pattern or practice" investigations to date, the Justice Department is now working to get Los Angeles city officials to sign a consent decree authorizing a third party to monitor the city's Police Department and imposing other safeguards.
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This weekend, the new car also will be prominently displayed at an ESPN party in the host city, Glaser said, as well as at a GQ party in the French Quarter.
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Barton, 25, who plays for Newcastle Utd, stubbed a lit cigar in the face of trainee Jamie Tandy at Manchester City's Christmas party in 2004.
Parallels exist between South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun and Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president of the late 1970s, the latest being the extraordinary repudiation of Roh's Uri party in city and provincial elections at the end of May.
"This is a crime happening inside Pakistan, " said Arif Alvi, the PTI candidate for national parliament running in the Defense and Clifton parts of Karachi, the most affluent parts of the city, where his party was expected to have its best chance.
Green Party member Larry Barnett, the former mayor of Sonoma, California, and now a member of its city council, said the party's priority should be defeating George W. Bush.
Labour gained six seats and have become the largest party on the city council.
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Starr remains touched that Macca showed up at his 70th birthday party at Radio City Music Hall.
As things stand, unlike Belfast City Council, the Alliance Party does not control the balance of power on the commission.
Mr Sharif chose to form an alliance last year with the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, the main political party in the city.
Authorities said he would have needed permission from three of the city's five Republican Party county chairmen to run on the GOP ticket.
Warren Bradley, 45, of Woodsorrell Road, Wavertree, stepped down as leader of the city's Liberal Democrat party last April over electoral fraud claims.
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Recently, for example, opposition candidates say it took advantage of a flood in Chalco, a huge shantytown near Mexico city, to mix the party message with government aid.
The squad met Queen Beatrix at her palace in The Hague in the morning, followed by a boat tour through Amsterdam's canals and a party in the city's Museum Square.
But it's pretty easy to get swept up in the post-victory emotion and the piles of ticker tape, and believe that a championship party shows a city at its best.
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"This is a major step forward, giving us the opportunity to make a big difference to the city and the region, " said Brighton and Hove City Council's Green Party leader Jason Kitcat.
In the '90s, Will Smith's summer anthem "Miami" described a never-ending spring break-like atmosphere, surpassing New York and Los Angeles as the place to "party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach 'til the break of dawn".
Others have been casting doubts on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) - the largest and most organised political party of the city which is a partner in power both at the provincial and central levels but whose relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have soured over the past couple of months.
Or hit the party-filled port city of Bodrum, where cruise ships dock near a Crusader castle.
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