One sports an unruly blond mop, spouts Latin aphorisms and lovesto ride his bicycle. The other is a neat, newt-loving socialist whoprefers to travel by subway.Their contest is an Olympic-size grudge match. Meet Boris andKen – hometown celebrities known universally by their first names.When the 2012 London Games open on July 27, one of them will standbefore billions of television viewers as mayor of the hostcity.The incumbent, Boris Johnson, warns that it had better be himand not Ken Livingstone – his predecessor, intense rival andwould-be successor.”Obviously it’s an eventuality that I try not to contemplate,”Johnson said during a break in campaigning for London’s May 3mayoral election. ”And I’m working very hard to make sure that I’mspared by the electoral reaper.”Whoever wins, London’s next mayor will be a larger-than-lifefigure whose gaffes and idiosyncrasies would have sunk a lessconfident politician. The winner will oversee a world-class city of8 million people and a 14 billion-pound ($22 billion) budget.Johnson, a Conservative, hopes to win a second four-year termwhile Livingstone, London’s mayor from 2000 to 2008, is from Labour– but both transcend the parties they nominally represent.Livingstone has the greater London ties. He was born and raisedin the city, speaks with a nasal cockney accent… Read full this story
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