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...reelection in a city with a 5-to-1 Democratic edge is remarkable in and of itself. Giuliani accomplished this by embracing Democratic ideas when politically expedient (opposing Republican immigration policies), using the media to mold his reputation as a 'ubiquitous action hero of Gotham,' and employing an utter ruthlessness in discrediting and attacking his opponents. If he does dominate at the polls in November, his strategy will become the definitive play book on how a Republican can conquer an urban, racially-diverse, Democratic stronghold...
...black, Haitian immigrant by the NYPD in August looked as if it could be the spark that ignited the city's always-simmering racial tensions. More recently, one of Giuliani's Jewish political allies published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty as an utter nightmare. While Giuliani distanced himself from this attack, he later implied that Messinger (who is Jewish) does not care about the city's Italian-American and Roman Catholic communities because she did not attend the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and dropped out of the city's holiday parade...
...Wellers' marriage steadily deteriorates, and one day Dorrie hires a bulldozer to destroy Larry's backyard maze. Larry leaves Dorrie and his son Ryan and "his place on the planet." Only his job and his commission to create a maze for a friend of a friend save him from utter despair. Larry's mazes gain some local notoriety, and, when offered an opportunity to work on a maze in Chicago with a prominent landscaper, Larry quits his job and moves to the States...
...concert like this one--emotionally exhausting yet triumphant in its utter sincerity--heals a concertgoer's cynicism. It reminds one that going to Symphony is more than pomp and pretension, that performance is an act of liberation and that great music still lies at its center...
...Reverend Morell, Higgins learns nothing, ultimately rejecting the woman's efforts to lead him out of his narcissistic universe into the real world of male-female relations. And therein lies the tragedy: Higgins' experiment is a brilliant success as far as Eliza is concerned, but for himself, an utter failure-though he'll never admit...