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...rasps with the naked brio of someone who owns the joint. It's good to be the mayor. And, for Pappas, it's necessary to connect with voters in a physical, almost sexual way. A handshake and a brisk "How'm I doin'?", a la former Mayor Ed Koch, is not enough. Pappas has to bear-hug you, squeezing all the love and loyalty from your body into his. He's a vampire whose lifeblood is the unconditional emotional endorsement of everyone in the city...
...HallAl Pacino plays fictitious New York Mayor John Pappas as the tornado at the center of "City Hall", a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor, Kent Calhoun (John Cusack). Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss...
Christoph Braendli, Sven Koopmans and Oliver Koch said student interest was a key motivation in their decision to start HERO, a group aimed at providing support for European students at Harvard and promoting interest in and awareness of Europe on campus...
...founder Koch, a German national, said he, Braendli and Koopmans will spend the rest of the semester establishing an executive board to lead the organization. Koch said that with strong leadership, HERO will continue to fluorish even after its founders leave...
...have full faith that HERO will keep on running," Koch said...