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...coincidence, but neither is it a partnership: good does not need evil, we owe no debt to demons, and the attack did not make us better. It was an occasion to discover what we already were. "Maybe the purpose of all this," New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at a funeral for a friend, "is to find out if America today is as strong as when we fought for our independence or when we fought for ourselves as a Union to end slavery or as strong as our fathers and grandfathers who fought to rid the world of Nazism...
...leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is Time's 2001 Person of the Year...
...Predictably, the vast majority of submissions were related to 9/11, but not everyone drew the same conclusion from the event. The two highest vote-getters by far were George W. Bush and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who were both praised for "stepping up to the plate" and being "the right man at the right time...
...elicited enthusiasm extending far beyond New York's borders from readers who saw "a modern-day Churchill" ; "a true leader. Calm, cool, and collected" who "soothed the country when we needed it most." Once wary of Rudy's town, Americans "all became New Yorkers that day. He was our mayor." Several opined that "he even outshone our president in that he put his personal safety aside and jumped right in." A number of you recalled the mayor's personal setbacks prior to the event ("Enduring personal disgrace, prostate cancer, a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportion, his courage never wavered...
...Well, Mayor Mike, it's official now. Rudy is really gone, and that hearty handshake you received from the more-than-a-mayor Mayor of the World/Person of the Year at the happily uneventful New Year's Eve inaugural in Times Square was about the height of your mandate as his successor...