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...Auletta, former politico, now columnist for the New York Daily News and commentator for New York public television, wrote The Streets Were Paved With Gold to sort out how the self-proclaimed greatest city in the world self-destructed. His book is the best overview and analysis yet to appear of the four years of near bankruptcy and the circumstances that led to that debacle. Auletta's discussion avoids hackneyed liberal or conservative interpretations and provides convincing explanations of where the fault for New York's troubles lies...
...more a reflection on the sorry state of American magazine writing than on the two magazines' brilliance, New York provided an outlet for talented writers like Richard Reeves. The Voice, besides press critic Cockburn, probably the best of his ilk since A. J. Liebling, printed Nat Hentoff, Ken Auletta, and Robert Christgau, probably the best pop music critic around. Andrew Sarris is arguably the best film critic in America. And "The Greasy Pole," a political column co-written by Cockburn and James Ridgeway, provides some of the best leftist commentary on American politics today. It's hard to see these...
...great chance for the Crimson offense came with seven minutes left in the game, when Lyman Bullard challenged URI goalie Bob Auletta one-on-one--and lost. "Lyman was put through on two beautiful passes, but he was a pace back from the ball, and the goalie made a good save," Ford said...
...split the paper into numerous local editions to improve neighborhood coverage, and retired many of the general-assignment veterans in the newsroom. They have been replaced by younger specialists who are expert on such subjects as urban affairs, education and municipal finance. Says Village Voice Political Columnist Ken Auletta: The News "is a good paper getting better...
...Mayor Beame once again raised the city corporate tax, which comes on top of state and federal business levies. Beame even tried to win approval of a tax on beer, though his own administration had worked feverishly last year to prevent two breweries from leaving the city. Writes Ken Auletta, a sometime Democratic Party official who is a vocal critic of New York's government: "The city's unique form of socialism just doesn't work in a general capitalist economy. People who cannot afford it, after all, have a choice: they don't have to live or keep their...