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With a huge re-election victory giving Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg what his supporters described last night as a sweeping mandate, the Democrats who oppose him are girding for a sequel at City Hall that might best be called "Bloomberg Unleashed."
After winning narrowly in 2001, he imposed a smoking ban in New York City bars, raised property taxes by historic proportions and risked the anger of parents by holding back struggling grammar-school students. On top of all that, he wrested control of the public school system from the Board of Education.