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Even Detroit, a largely African-American city that is far worse off than the District, now appears to be on the mend after voters replaced an ineffectual black-nationalist mayor with a dynamic reformer.
Seasons of plenty alternate with leaner periods when the people prepare to “mend and make do. ”
And the LAT op-ed page runs the piece he wrote right afterwards to mend the fences with the fans, in which he advances the same "if movie stars can get it, why can't I" arguments you hear today.
We're talking, after all, about a city government that--with an annual budget of about $5 billion and a shrinking population--runs schools that cannot shelter, much less educate its children; cannot mend its roads or keep its drinking water potable; cannot police its own police force, let alone its streets or jails; cannot care for the sick, or elderly, or homeless.
It's never too late to mend , overheard the other day--is that a combination of It's never too late to learn and First ended, soonest mended?