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...airplanes struck the World Trade Center. HBO?s recent documentary In Memoriam used amateur video to chronicle Sept. 11; as someone jumps to escape the flames, a voice off camera lectures, "Don?t take pictures of that! What?s the matter with you?" Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended the images, arguing that we have not only a right but an obligation to watch, so as not to sanitize our collective memory...
...Quinnipiac University poll in February indicated that three out of four New Yorkers favored rebuilding of some sort on the site. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, by contrast, is lobbying to keep the Ground Zero site unbuilt, possibly turning it into a large memorial park...
Spitzer clearly hopes to ride the outrage against Wall Street to political gain, much as Rudolph Giuliani exploited the Street's insider-trading scandals as a federal prosecutor in New York City 15 years ago. And make no mistake: Spitzer is on to what has become an emotional issue for investors who want to see someone on their side. Long before he arrived, several institutions--the SEC, Congress, the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers--had looked for but failed to turn up hard evidence of what Spitzer asserts is criminal fraud. Few expect that...
...people; they killed one person 3,000 times. But TV has focused mostly on Sept. 11's enormity: CBS's 9/11 celebrated the hundreds of fire fighters who died at the World Trade Center; HBO's forthcoming In Memoriam gives a God's-eye view of the Giuliani administration's response. The event was so massive, its effects so sweeping and its images so staggering, that like the fallen towers themselves, it defies human scale...
...National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) liked the response so much that it has used it in an ad campaign advocating relaxation of the city's laws calling for the arrest and jailing of those caught getting high--laws strenuously enforced by Bloomberg's predecessor, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg stressed that he will continue to enforce the marijuana laws, and is not happy that NORML is using his quote. But he said he would respect the group's First Amendment right to run it. How mellow...