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* When the New Orleans Times-Picayune endorsed Eddie Jordan for election as the city's district attorney in 2002, it cited his efforts to fight "public corruption." At his inauguration two months later, Democratic senator Mary Landrieu hailed him as the first black man to hold the office. "Eyes are elevated, hearts beat a little faster, people dream a little differently, and people's dreams come true," she said. One of his very first actions, however, was to fire 53 of the 77 white non-lawyers who worked in his office and to ...