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...city mayor must be all things to all people: traffic cop, fix-it man, novelist. Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father...
...coverage. When you get to the very large events that happen more infrequently, those events should be covered by a state pool funded by all its citizens through an additional charge on insurance premiums or whenever a real estate transaction occurs. What we're advocating is, Let's be smart and do it up front and have the people who live in harm's way provide much of the pooled relief and then have the Federal Government stand in when there are the really large, tsunami kind of events...
...never felt like the Everyman. I felt like the smart-ass outsider. I still have guys over to watch football on Sunday. I do have a butler. P. Diddy had a butler who carried an umbrella over his head, and I thought, I'd love to have a butler. He waters my tomatoes. He's putting my home movies...
...neighborhoods shouldn't be rebuilt, or can't be provided city services. "The mayor so far has not demonstrated a willingness to make anyone unhappy," says John McIlwain, a senior fellow who worked on the ULI plan. Kroloff, who headed the failed BNOB planning effort, credits Nagin with being "smart and articulate" but believes the mayor must clearly lay out the city's top needs on everything from housing to mass transit. "We need a shared vision," he says...
...Leipold looked at the records in more than 75,000 federal criminal trials from 1989 through 2002. In about three-quarters of the cases, defendants chose to have a jury rather than a judge decide the outcome, as is their right under the Constitution. This was generally not a smart move. Judges convicted about 55 percent of the time, while the jury conviction rate was a whopping 84 percent...