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...Piazza Alimonda in Genoa, Italy, a photographer caught a young man getting ready to hurl a fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover trapped against a wall. Inside the van, a police officer can be seen aiming a pistol at the demonstrator. One, possibly two shots were fired; Carlo Giuliani, 23, the son of a labor union official from Rome, fell, bleeding through his ski mask from a wound to the head. The van ran him over as it backed away, and Giuliani died...
...Genoa, and the death of the protester Carlo Giuliani, to be remembered as the anti-globalizers' Bunker Hill, or its Altamont...
...RUDY GIULIANI May move out of NYC mayoral mansion in latest episode of divorce drama that...
Detractors see a different man. They call him arrogant and controlling, a bully who censors employee e-mail and aims surveillance cameras at his workers. Bloomberg says he would use the same e-mail technology on City Hall computers and put those cameras in high-crime neighborhoods (as Giuliani has). That worries Floyd Flake, an influential black minister and former Congressman. "I think people would feel targeted," he warns. Opponents will no doubt cast Bloomberg (who once said his hobbies were "theater, dining and chasing women") as a Lothario, noting that three sexual-harassment suits have been filed against...
While Goldman Sachs millionaire Jon Corzine made it to the Senate last year, Bloomberg notes that three-quarters of wealthy candidates fail. And New York City has never elected a rich suitor. As Giuliani learned in 1989, the first time a novice runs for mayor, he loses. Still, the billionaire says he would rue not running more than he would a loss. "If you believe you can make a difference, you will regret it the rest of your life if you don't give it a shot," he says. Five months of campaigning may make him rethink that...