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  • The Rings of Giuliani

    05/11/2007 11:55:10 PM PDT · by jdm · 4 replies · 515+ views
    NY Times ^ | May 12, 2007 | Jim Dwyer
    Rudolph W. Giuliani, who after deep reflection has concluded that he is the best qualified person in America to be president, now owns four gold World Series rings, which, if hit hard enough with a hammer, would yield about 100 diamonds, some of them a half-carat in size. The rings were created by the New York Yankees baseball team to commemorate their championships from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Giuliani says he bought them fair and square for a total of $16,000 — “I paid precisely what anyone else would pay” — and that he scored the baubles only after he...
  • Rudy: The Yankees' Clean-Up Man [long, but interesting read]

    05/09/2007 10:14:15 PM PDT · by jdm · 3 replies · 800+ views
    Village Voice ^ | May 8, 2007 | Wayne Barrett
    The greatest love affair of Rudy Giuliani's life has become a sordid scandal. His monogamous embrace of the Yankees as mayor was so fervent that when he tried to deliver a West Side stadium to them early in his administration, or approved a last-minute $400 million subsidy for their new Bronx stadium, New Yorkers blithely ascribed the bad deals to a heaving heart. It turns out he also had an outstretched hand. Sports fans grew accustomed to seeing Giuliani, in Yankee jacket and cap, within camera view of the team's dugout at every one of the 40 postseason home games...