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Friday, March 29
Time Magazine named Mayor Daley as one of the top five mayors in the country this week, and the Tribune has jumped all over it. Dan Mihalopoulos thinks Time needs to read the papers more, while Eric Zorn points out that only about 10 percent of the Daley profile is negative. The Sun-Times notes that there has been more corruption under Daley than in the previous 70 years.