61.   But the reason the issue sparked a recall effort in Tempe, Giuliano and some elected city officials maintain, is that the mayor is gay.

62.   But the administration is beginning to consider how to help some areas of Serbia where opposition party mayors are in power.

63.   But this day, the former San Antonio mayor is full of anticipation, bounding out of the car to engage some of the remaining residents.

64.   But the mayor was not mollified and gave them his own salty take on the biblical admonition about the humbling of the exalted.

65.   But the new mayor is a Republican, and he is eager to please.

66.   But when Clinton came calling here the other day, the mayor was back to being a loyal Democrat, clinging to the Chief Executive at every stop.

67.   Cardenas knows his performance as mayor will be a test, and that he will not have much time to complete it.

68.   By most measures, though, the mayor is not self-destructing.

69.   Current and former transit officials say that the mayor is right in principle, but that the savings from such changes would be relatively small.

70.   Crotty said that he spoke of the threatened action in his oral arguments in the state Supreme Court, and that the mayor was behind the strategy.