This election is not about friendship but about who can do the best job of leading New York and bringing together its diverse people,

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

The fact that Weld is the leading contender speaks volumes about the state of the New York GOP. How can there be no homegrown contender groomed and prepared to take on someone like Spitzer? The need for them to call on a former Governor of Massachusetts, a guy to the left of Pataki, when they know all too well that they are toast this time around if they don't field someone acceptable to conservatives is just amazing.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. --Jared Oopf

I had questions about how both she and the New York Times handled the situation, but now I think she was a very intelligent person who got caught up in a huge event, and she's still going through it. I think some of the things she did aren't necessarily right or wrong, she just had to go through them.

It took six weeks to load the show into New York.