"But at this point, the Mayor appears in very good shape."

The raid was suddenly called off when the Mayor appeared at the hotel.

A lawyer for the families of the two dead men said the Mayor appeared to have been interjecting himself into the case.

But they said the former Mayor appeared to be in good health and to have suffered neither a stroke nor a heart attack.

And the mayor does not appear to have softened his stance on other taxes for this year.

The department spent four months trying to persuade the Mayor to appear in a commercial, and he assented a few weeks ago.

The mayor appeared to have none of those qualities.

But neither the mayor nor the chancellor is mentioned or appears in the 30-second ads.

"The Mayor appears to be rewriting state law without legislative authority," he said.

Only when television reporters went live, and when the mayor appeared, did the screen get raised.