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...hardball behind the scenes. When controversy arose recently over the fact that Bush's finance chairman in Maine was an assault-weapons manufacturer, Rove made sure he resigned his post swiftly, and quietly. And when the bitter rivalry in the New York G.O.P. between Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was looking like it might sabotage the mayor's chances in a Senate race against Hillary Clinton, Rove made it known through intermediaries that Governor Bush wanted Pataki to patch things up. The reason: an easy ride for Hillary would hurt Bush's chances of being competitive...
With Hillary Clinton on a "listening tour" of New York and her prospective Senate rival Rudolph Giuliani fresh from "listening" all over Little Rock, Ark., we asked experts to guide the eager-eared pols on how best to seem receptive...
This sort of false intimacy isn't new, of course. People wept when Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 and when the Lindberghs lost their baby in 1932. It's natural and in most ways harmless to identify with the famous. But today's combination of busy lives, fragmented families and saturation media coverage of celebrities means this is the only intimacy many of us experience outside our immediate family. And that's unhealthy, because these celebrity relationships...
...stereotypical aggressive, opinionated, arrogant New York attitude is personified in our mayor. No where else in the world would Rudolph W. Giuliani's chutzpah be tolerated, yet it is precisely what New York City natives love about him. Rudy's no-nonsense attitude and willingness to take a stand, even when that opinion clashes with the generally accepted stance, combined with his deep appreciation and love for the city and its culture make him the perfect mayor...
...stereotypical aggressive, opinionated, arrogant New York attitude is personified in our mayor. No where else in the world would Rudolph W. Giuliani's chutzpah be tolerated, yet it is precisely what New York City natives love about him. Rudy's no-nonsense attitude and willingness to take a stand, even when that opinion clashes with the generally accepted stance, combined with his deep appreciation and love for the city and its culture make him the perfect mayor...