TALKING POINT: MORE DEBATES
     It was easy to distinguish which local political races were runaways and which were closely contested this year: the candidates with big leads ran TV ads featuring sunny, soaring and even elegiac images and music, while the others ran ads that were darker and heavily negative.
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FDNY CAN'T GUARANTEE RESULTS
     Fire Department officials have pronounced themselves pleased that about 35 percent of the applicants who filed for the Jan. 20 written exam for Firefighter are people of color.
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