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Just days before the annual Harvard-Yale football match, a conspicuous Eli will enter enemy territory. New York Republican Governor George E. Pataki, who graduated from Yale in 1967, will deliver the Albert H. Gordon Lecture on Finance and Public Policy here on Nov. 14, the Institute of Politics (IOP) announced yesterday...
...smile, shake hands and maybe taste the fair's famed fried Twinkies. Also planning to visit Iowa in August: 2004 Democratic running mates John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas, New York Governor George Pataki and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney...
...April truce between Silverstein and the Port Authority resolves most of those turf issues. Silverstein gets to unload the Freedom Tower, widely seen as a white elephant and a money loser. Pataki can claim that construction is moving forward, in time for his expected presidential bid. Bloomberg, who has long pushed for adding residential space, will probably get that with Tower 5. There are yet some issues on the table, but the agreement was enough to clear the way for construction on the Freedom Tower to begin April...
...Port Authority has won that battle. But to fill the Freedom Tower's 2.6 million sq. ft. of office space, Pataki and his allies at the Port Authority may again rely on government tenants to fill the floors. In the old World Trade Center, the Port Authority occupied 13 full floors--and lost 47 civilian employees, including its chief, Neil Levin, in the attacks. But adding government space could make potential tenants even more skittish about a recurrence...
...Silverstein will move forward with construction--to the relief of a city that has grown weary of the endless bickering. But change could still be in the works. The Port Authority doesn't officially vote on the agreement with Silverstein until late September. More important, with Pataki in his final year in office, New York will get a new Governor--with ultimate authority over the site--next January. Expect the future of ground zero to be re-examined yet again. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Grand Vision The planned office towers and memorial...