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To: gao seng who wrote (213091)	12/28/2001 12:28:45 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BIG IDEAS TURNED BIG APPLE AROUND By BOB MCMANUS AT 11 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1993 - the night Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor of New York City - a dead man lay face up on the sidewalk behind The Post's old building down on the Lower East Side. There was a bullet hole in his forehead, and the cops said it was all about crack cocaine and gang turf and that it would be safer in the future to avoid the two housing projects that dominated the neighborhood - the Al Smith Homes to the left, and the Rutgers buildings off on the right. Sound advice, for sure, but that left it hard to come to work in the morning, and to leave at night - because the only way to avoid the projects would be to swim the East River. "Let's hope things get better with the new mayor," was the office consensus. Boy, did they ever. But not by accident. Rudy said goodbye to his hard-won and extraordinarily successful mayoralty yesterday at St. Paul's Chapel - a couple hundred yards from where the World Trade Center once stood. From ground zero, where he himself almost died that searing morning in September - and where, in the days and weeks to follow, he truly earned the title "America's mayor." But first, he was New York's mayor. "Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York," he said. Ah, but Rudy Giuliani acquitted his mayoralty with great honor. He had made but one campaign promise in 1993 - to turn New York around. And he kept it. He kept it through force of will, and with a sustaining faith in his ideals. And with ideas. Oh, yes. With ideas. The idea that great cities don't cede the streets to the chronically dysfunctional - to criminals or drunks or junkies or the tragically mentally ill. The idea that no one is owed a living - or a roof overhead - in return for nothing at all. The idea that social chaos is not the natural state of New York City - and that, especially regarding race, true mandates do not reside in reckless rhetoric. The idea that there can be no municipal social programs without a reliable municipal tax base - that is, without a sound municipal economy. And the idea that public schools exist to educate children, not to employ public educators. These ideas, and others, generated considerable anger eight years ago. As they do today. Some people object to them on principle. Others stand to profit personally from a return to the rule-by-ruin old days - to the old ways. Both camps will be heard from, loudly, in the months ahead. For now comes a new mayor, Mike Bloomberg, doubtless with ideas of his own. What they might be remains a great mystery; for sure, they never emerged during the fall campaign. And so there is cause for concern. But Bloomberg inherits a city that works; the challenge before him is to keep it that way. Once they numbered the bullet-riddled bodies lying on the sidewalks in the thousands, and now no longer. For this, and other blessings, credit Rudy Giuliani - and his ideas. History will. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: gao seng who wrote (213091)	12/28/2001 12:56:16 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The only thing Dashel has accomplished as Leader of the Senate is a pay raise for Senators. M

To: gao seng who wrote (213091)	12/28/2001 4:42:42 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas Sowell holds the opinion that there will always be a group of politicians whose only plan and promise is to rob the national treasury and pay the money over to their constituents. The Founders thought so also, which is why they left the government with limited means. The American left itself will fade-because they are anti-American and their principles are long obsolete. But highway robber barons will always be sliming their way into the House and Senate, supported by the greedy and the ignorant. On the bright side, though, that unfortunate circumstance means that term limits with remain alive as a issue until they become law...