New Mayor Seated in Philadelphia
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John F. Street was inaugurated as Philadelphia’s 122nd mayor, promising to look beyond the city’s revitalized downtown to revive schools and attack blight and crime in outlying neighborhoods. The inauguration marked the end of Edward G. Rendell’s eight-year administration, which saw the nation’s fifth-largest city recover from the brink of bankruptcy..
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