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From 1999, Elizabeth Kolbert on Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Elizabeth Kolbert on covering City Hall
The week before Christmas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the featured speaker at an awards ceremony honoring members of the New York City Law Department. The ceremony took place at City Hall, in the Council Chamber--a room made briefly famous last summer when a council member was shot to death there--which seats more than five hundred people. Not a single chair was empty when the Mayor arrived, accompanied by the head of the Law Department, Michael Cardozo. "When I walked in, I said to him, 'Who are these people?' " Bloomberg began, nodding in Cardozo's direction. ...