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...many of us who live in New York City did think Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was joking when he said he was cracking down on jaywalking. It was something Humphrey Bogart as a private eye might have said sarcastically to a homicide lieutenant whose guff he did not intend to take ("That's real good, flatfoot, but isn't it about time for you to go out and arrest another nun for jaywalking?"). But then a law student crossing Sixth Avenue got a $50 jaywalking ticket. What we had forgotten was that Mayor Giuliani is never joking...
...Giuliani showed us that cameras can effectively deter violent crime, and Cambridge needs to follow his lead," Despotes said...
...Christopher Robin's gave the toys as a gift to the New York Public Library, which everyone agreed was a Perfectly Legal Thing. Everyone, that is, except Gwyneth Dunwoody, a British Member of Parliament, who said yesterday that it was high time Pooh came home. Oh bother, thought Mr. Giuliani, the Mayor of New York. "They've been very happy here," he said, and besides, he added, New York had stopped being a colony a long time ago. Ms. Dunwoody disagreed, and pronounced Mr. Giuliani a Mayor of Very Little Brain. "Fair enough," she said, "I am happy...
...INTERN Don't cross Hizzoner: Giuliani fires kid employee who razzes new pedestrian barricades...
Fernando Carreira, the caretaker who tipped off police to Cunanan's presence on the houseboat, ultimately received $55,000 in reward money, although the highly publicized $10,000 promised by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has yet to materialize (trying to wriggle out on a technicality, the city claims Carreira called the wrong tip line; a lawsuit may be in the works). Carreira used most of his windfall to pay off debts. His only splurge was on a horse named Princess, which he bought for his 15-year-old son. "It keeps him occupied," Carreira told the Miami Herald...