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wants to do for the people of New York," she wrote.
• Will that be enough to satisfy a bewildered public? Maybe not. But people who go searching for a deeper motive are almost certain to get it wrong.
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• BEIJING (AP) -- Deposed Chinese politician Bo Xilai was charged with corruption and abuse of power Thursday, as China's new leadership tries to steer the country's ugliest political scandal in years toward closure.
• Bo, 64, was a rising political star who ran the metropolis of Chongqing until he fell from power last year in a scandal that saw his wife convicted of killing a British businessman. On Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency announced that he was charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power and will stand trial in the eastern city of Jinan.
• The indictment paves the way for a trial that could take place in a few weeks, concluding a messy scandal that cast an unwelcome shadow over last year's political transition to a new generation of Communist Party leaders under Xi Jinping.
• "Continuing to let the case drag on would only raise questions and suspicions of political discord in the leadership," said Dali Yang, head of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing.
• In China, trials of such high-level officials accused of corruption are less about legal process than they are about decisions hammered out by politicians and the party's graft investigators and announced by a court. There is usually little dispute aired during proceedings, and most of it is kept out of the public eye.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Door-to-door mail delivery is about as American as apple pie. With the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, that tradition could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal in Congress.
• The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday approved a plan to move to cluster box and curbside delivery, which includes mailboxes at the end of driveways.

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