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...conversation with TIME, Rudy Giuliani stated that he was proud of reducing the hotel-occupancy tax [10 QUESTIONS, June 30]. When I was considering a visit to New York City, the thought of paying a tax to stay in a hotel room never crossed my mind, but the fear of being mugged certainly did. Giuliani deserves credit for controlling street crime so that visitors could feel safe. By crediting a tax reduction for the increase in tourism, the former mayor is not doing tourists or his record full justice. SUDHIR JAIN Calgary, Alta...
...months since he stepped down as New York City's mayor, Rudy Giuliani has hardly left the public eye. He has traveled the lecture circuit, had a high-profile wedding to Judith Nathan and seen his story told in a TV movie. He was getting ready to lead a U.S. delegation to Vienna for an anti-Semitism conference when Time's Amanda Bower caught up with him in his Times Square office...
...policies won't improve public services; with his own former ministers calling him a liar, cynicism about rosy claims can only rise. Blair's problem is that nowhere in public services has there been the sharp, widely felt surge in quality of life of the sort that Rudolph Giuliani's crime crackdown brought to New York. In last week's speech, Blair offered a tangled road map out of these difficulties, amounting to slightly greater local control of public services, layered in dire warnings about the Conservatives - not that they yet stand any chance of beating Labour. A major rethink...
Kerik is nothing if not upbeat about the direction in which Iraq is heading. He does have a precedent to go by, having helped Mayor Rudolph Giuliani achieve impressive reductions in New York City crime. Baghdad's new sheriff acknowledges that his current job is an even tougher undertaking. "Someone driving down the street, pulling out a gun and doing a drive-by shooting is one thing," he notes. "Here, somebody rolls down their back window, pulls out an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] and blows up the entire precinct. It's a slightly different ball game...
...People are starting to feel more confident. They're coming back out. Markets and shops that I saw closed one week ago have opened." Anyway, he's used to hearing citizens gripe that nothing has improved. "In New York City in 1994, crime was coming down two weeks after Giuliani took over. But people didn't feel it for two years. It's going to take time...