Living: Wedded to His Home Town

if | care about people," says Baltimore's Mayor William Donald Schaefer. "I I know that sounds silly." It does not sound the least bit silly to his constituents. In the worst and best of times since he was first elected ten years ago, the balding, portly (5 ft. 9 in., 186 Ibs.) executive has doggedly fought city hall sloth, inefficiency, arrogance and red tape. He believes that the city's neighborhoods, with their rich ethnic mix, are Baltimore's greatest asset. He has extracted some $55 million for housing and development beyond the city's federally mandated entitlements of about $240 million from Washington;...

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