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...rule, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani don't hang out together--they were nasty rivals in the New York Senate race until cancer and marital weirdness forced Giuliani out--but right now they find themselves trapped in a peculiarly modern circle of hell: the one inhabited by subjects of tell-all books...
...stentorian voice or mane of white hair to graduate to a seat in the American House of Lords, but a little gravitas, a bit of Olympian detachment or at least a few outsize personality quirks help. Hillary has the latter in spades and rock-star fame. And while Rudy Giuliani may have been too knee-in-the-groin nasty to attract all the anti-Hillary votes, the fresh-faced Lazio could be just too aw-shucks nice, a slice of Velveeta on white in a state with a decided taste for roquefort on rye, a place where full-frontal egomaniacs...
Lazio may see even less reason to risk going negative in this race, when his opponent's unfavorables may already be high enough to do her in. Otherwise reliably Democratic women were willing to vote for the otherwise unpalatable Giuliani because of their distaste for Hillary's assumption of derivative power, her high-handed bungling of health-care reform, her seeming deal with her husband for silence in exchange for career advancement, aggravated by the famous sight of their dancing on the beach in the Virgin Islands and, more recently, of her giggling like a newlywed after their first night...
...Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's council of economic advisers, expressed the official outrage: "It's hard to believe a rate increase is justified [in light of] the energy outages...
Whereas Rudy was once the stick by which voters measured and cast their ballots, Clinton is now the driving--or repelling--force. The week that Giuliani waved the Senate seat goodbye, a Times/CBS poll showed Lazio owning a paltry percentage of the New York vote. Weeks later, he had worked his way up to a hefty 39 percent...