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...Duehay is also trying to arrange a meeting with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo to discuss housing and homelessness. In particular, Duehay would like to talk to Cuomo about expiring use, the recent phenomenon of making available houses once reserved for affordable housing to market pricing, which has led to many evictions in Cambridge...
...commitment to fixing potholes in Syracuse. As much as she will energize Democratic loyalists, her candidacy would mobilize the right, become fodder for G.O.P. direct-mail fund raising and unite New York's upstate conservatives--good news for Giuliani, who has never recovered their good graces since endorsing Mario Cuomo in the 1994 Governor's race...
Even after Cuomo's speech, his listeners couldn't help but feel the need to search for those future heroes--or to dream of becoming them. During the question-and-answer period, more than half the questioners disregarded the content of Cuomo's speech entirely, asking him instead about his predictions for future candidates for office. Leaving the auditorium, students asked each other whether they planned on going into politics. One student, quoted in this newspaper, expressed the feelings of many when she confided that the speech made her "want to go out and do something." But do what...
...Cuomo cautioned that we cannot expect heroes to arise on their own. But that doesn't mean that heroism lies beyond our grasp. It simply means that we should be willing NOT to be heroes, to acknowledge that our most exalted role might lie, instead, in softening the ground so that future heroes will have a place to grow. When they hear that Cuomo came to Harvard to speak about "the liberal agenda," too many people probably assumed that they had heard it all before, and that if it was all old news, who needed it? Those people, no matter...
...Cuomo is right. The ground today is too hard for heroes. But if more people are willing to cry for their ideas in the ARCO Forum, perhaps their tears will soften the ground...