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...York City has reason to be proud of its mayor. Rudolph W. Giuliani has been a most stirring and impressive leader in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the city’s World Trade Center. Both political leaders and private citizens have expressed great admiration for the mayor’s conduct in the weeks since the attack, and last week this page expressed its regret that the mayor will not be able to run for a third term in the upcoming election...
...York state laws have left Giuliani with but one reasonable option for the future: to accept the sub-mayoral administrative post that mayoral candidates such as Fernando Ferrer have offered him. In this role, Giuliani could continue to provide moral and symbolic support to New Yorkers and to continue overseeing the relief effort without undermining the democratic process...
...terrorists ruined lower Manhattan, where a mass grave still smolders, but they haven't conquered New York City. Giuliani, of all people, should see that wanting to restore the city means having its election go on as planned. Term limits are undemocratic and thwart the will of the people, but democracy requires that people get rid of limits in due course, not in a move by the state legislature for the benefit...
...have to wonder if Giuliani would be such a perfect wartime mayor if he hadn't had his own brush with death. No one would wish all those dark nights of sickness on anyone. But in a man who had often seemed indifferent if not callous to the feelings of others, prostate cancer brought out a gentler side that New Yorkers had rarely seen. As he dropped out of the 2000 Senate race, Rudy acknowledged how suddenly vulnerable to the slings and arrows of life he'd become. A soulful awareness of the fragility of life and an inexhaustible supply...
...trail in Rudy Giuliani's wake is to feel like the Red Cross ladies handing out aspirin and apples in the temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...