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Mayor Thomas Koch said he tried to be flexible with Street-Works Development, giving the city's partner in the $1.6 billion Quincy Center project leeway on four missed deadlines before finally putting the company on notice of default.
QUINCY – The city's partner in the $1.6 billion downtown development project paid the city $500,000 in fees to secure 11 extensions for site plans and financial report deadlines dating back to January 2012.
But it was not until 12 weeks after the last of four other missed deadlines that Mayor Thomas Koch threatened to end Quincy's relationship with downtown developer Street-Works, saying the company would be in default if required filings are not made by March 20.
Koch said he tried to be flexible when Street-Works missed deadlines in May, July and September without paying for extensions on time. The official groundbreaking ceremony for the project occurred during that same time period, in late June. The latest deadline passed Nov. 24.
"I didn't see it as a violation at the time," Koch said. "Now, several months later, it is. And quite frankly, that's the difference. Several months of Street-Works' inability to seek an extension, I saw as a sign that they didn't have the capital to extend."
On Dec. 17, three weeks after the latest filing deadline, Koch spoke at a special Quincy Chamber of Commerce event and told more than 150 local business owners that changes were needed in the 2010 land disposition agreement between the city and Street-Works.
In December, Koch, who was unopposed for re-election in November, said the changes in the agreement were needed to help Street-Works carry out the project, but he made no mention of the developer's repeated failures to comply with the agreement.
"Did the city know (about Street-Works' default) after Nov. 24, and why would you hold a meeting in December and say the land disposition agreement needed to change," said Neil Kiley, owner of the Fat Cat restaurant on Chestnut Street. "Why wouldn't you just tell us everything?"
Koch said he used his own discretion to give Street-Works more time to either make the filings or pay for another extension. He said it became apparent to him in recent months that Street-Works didn't have the necessary funding.
"In the end, if they can't capitalize, they can't execute," Koch said.
Ken Narva, managing partner at Street-Works, wouldn't comment this week because of a recent death in his family. Other Street-Works officials did not return calls for comment.
According to the city, Street-Works first missed its filing deadline last May, eventually paying the $50,000 extension fee two months later, in July. Then, in October, it paid the city $100,000 to secure two retroactive extensions, pushing the deadline to Nov. 24.
Street-Works' first step of redevelopment was expected to be the largest phase of the project, involving the creation of least 500,000 square feet of new retail, residential, office and hospitality space. Also, the first step required the developer to purchase Ross Garage and Hancock Parking Lot from the city for $4.8 million.
In total, Street-Works has paid $750,000 in Step 1 extension payments and a $100,000 deposit for the Ross Garage, the city says. Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Koch, said this money is sitting in an escrow account, and that its fate was unknown as of Wednesday.
In addition, the city says it has spent $728,250 from a peer-review consulting account funded by Street-Works. The account currently contains $96,750.52.
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Lorena Ochoa (born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer. She was an active player on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the number one ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to May 2010. As the first Mexican golfer (of either gender) to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer of all time.
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They're old, they're white, and they rarely if ever use Twitter. They are also, arguably, the best people for the job.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the moderators of the 2012 presidential debates.
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On Monday, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that PBS's Jim Lehrer, CNN's Candy Crowley, and CBS's Bob Schieffer would host the three debates between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney in October. ABC's Martha Raddatz will host the vice presidential face off between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan.
On the one hand, the choice of moderators marks progress: For the first time in 20 years, a woman will host a presidential debate. On the other hand, it reeks of the archaic: At an average age of 69 (72 if you exclude Raddatz), the debate hosts all come from old media and a familiar demographic that better represents the Commission than it does the American public. Moreover, as veterans of 20th century television journalism, none represent the Internet and social media-age that has largely come to define the 2012 campaign.
And yet, the Commission argues that veteran television anchors are the only ones suited to take on what is widely seen as the highest calling of a political journalist's career.
"We picked the people we thought were the best, regardless," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chairman on the Debate Commission, told POLITICO. "This is a two-year process, and all the way through we looked at new ideas, new people. But historically, we have stayed with television journalists, because the moderators have to be experienced."
"You have to look at how journalists handle pressure, how they think on their feet. There is a very fine art to mastering the material, moving in real-time while a producer is in your ear, and having the confidence to tell presidential candidates they're over time or not answering the question," Janet Brown, the executive director of the Commission, told POLITICO. "That takes a lot of skill, and the people best-suited to do this are people with experience. Without it, in real time, moderators are taking a significant risk, which is a disservice to the American people and the candidates."
The Commission also has to select moderators that voters trust, and that is a matter of not just ideology but age. For all the excitement over new media organizations, there are a lot of voters in Boca Raton and Dubuque who have never heard of many new media organizations.
"The Commission always has to choose moderators that people are not going to dispute, and that tends to result with people who are widely respected, and have a track record of fairness," Steve Schmidt, the senior strategist to John McCain's 2008 campaign, told POLITICO. "Every cycle, campaigns say they're going to take back control from the debate commission, but it never happens."
"In order to be considered as a candidate for moderator you have to be soaked in the sphere of consensus, likely to stay within the predictable inner rings of the sphere of legitimate controversy, and unlikely in the extreme to select any questions from the sphere of deviance," said Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University. "This is because a successful candidate has to be acceptable to the Commission, the Romney camp and the Obama camp."
The Commission, co-chaired by Fahrenkopf (former head of the RNC) and former Clinton press secretary Michael McCurry, was established by both parties in 1987 and has sponsored every debate since. It spends two years reviewing candidates for the position—studying tapes, vetting records—and finalists are then presented to the campaigns for approval. As in jury selection, the campaigns have full veto power over any moderator they deem to be unfair or unfit for the task. Which is part of the reason that figures like Lehrer and Schieffer are so reliable.


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Oysters, East to West
And so, life goes on. My time at Island Creek ended, ceremoniously, with that last lunch at Tsang's. But there had been a pretty eventful week leading up it as well as a couple of neat oyster moments directly thereafter which I never properly reported.
It started with a visit from Adam James of the Hama Hama Oyster Company out in Lilliwaup, Washington. He was in town doing a tour of the Northeast and stopped by the farm for a quick morning to scope out the operation. While it wasn't a great tide to get him out in waders, Chris, Skip, and I were able to show him the Plex and give him a peek at the cages.
Skip popped a few oysters open for him, giving him a taste of Island Creeks at their peak. The oysters are just starting to get plump with all that pre-winter glycogen; the flavor is perfectly round and sweet. Just beautiful.
Adam's operation is a lot different than ours. His family owns the 400 acres of tidal flats he farms on out in Washington's Hood Canal.
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While he has plenty of space to grow, he's working with a unique, gravelly surface and 17-foot tides. His oysters are all naturally raised, meaning they're grown from spat set on shell (versus ours, which are "free range"), which he harvests mostly by hand (their tides get them about 4-5 hours of picking time) and he's growing both Pacifics and Olympias. He also grows geoducks and Manila clams.
As I was able to see for myself last week, his operation is similar to Island Creek in so many ways. Dave and I visited his farm on our trip to the Northwest the week after I left the farm and found it to be just the right day trip for our week-long tour. The company recently built a brand new retail operation and processing facility which sits right off Hwy 101 on the eastern edge of the Olympic Peninsula -- the drive over from Seattle takes you across the spindly fingers of land that jut out into Puget Sound. We arrived to find Adam tapping away at his computer, which he happily abandoned to spend a day touring the farm.
After checking out his shucking and jarring operation (he has a big audience of shucked meat lovers) and sampling some of the oysters his wife Andrea was in the process of smoking, Adam and his dog Derby showed us around the rest of the farm. His family owns about 4,000 acres, all of which surround the Hamma Hamma river, a fresh water source that runs straight out of the Olympic range (and happens to be flush with salmon). A few family houses as well as a horse barn sit at the eastern edge of the property near the water but just past that sits a lovely forest park, planted originally by Adam's grandfather -- his family has owned the property since the 1920s. Up the hills, Adam pointed out where they've harvested and replanted glades along the range -- they sell Christmas trees, too.
He walked us up the river a bit, pulling out a paper bag halfway through the walk to dive into his true passion: mushroom foraging. As we walked, he darted amongst the trees pulling up chanterelles and carefully stowing them away in his bag. Though he mostly forages for his own consumption and fascination, I'm hoping he'll stash a few into the oyster shipments that have started showing up regularly at the Island Creek Oyster Bar.
Out on the water, Adam introduced us to one of the oyster crews who took us out for a ride on the barge. A heavy duty version of our skiff, the barge can handle a large number of oysters -- they use it to pull up the seed which they keep on the southern part of their farm in rack systems as well as to harvest from the beds which sit a little farther north, close to the mouth of the river. That cold rush of fresh water, Adam said, is what gives Hama Hamas their sweet and briny balance.
We got to to sample a few, of course, fresh off the knife. As Adam pointed out, a few were still in spawn mode but those that weren't were firm and juicy.
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With our appetites fully primed, Adam took us back to his cabin and made us a hearty, Northwestern lunch: bagel cheese burgers made from beef Andrea's father grew topped with freshly picked chanterelles.
While Adam offered to put us up in his family's guest cabin for the night, Dave and I made our way north into the Olympic range -- but we're determined to get back out soon and take you up on that offer, Adam. Thanks again for everything.


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Angelina Jolie - who was rumoured to direct forthcoming 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film - insists she's better suited to a "certain kind of film"
Angelina Jolie admits she'd only direct a "certain kind of film".
The 38-year-old actress was previously rumoured to be in the line up to helm forthcoming 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie - which is being directed by Sam Taylor-Wood - and insists she's better at telling "some stories than others".
Asked about what actually happened regarding talks about the adaptation of E. L. James' erotic trilogy, she told Entertainment Weekly magazine: "I - I was just."
Before adding: "I - I think they're just ... it's funny, I think with directing, you just think, 'I'm better at telling some stories than others,' but, um, who knows?
"I came very clear out of the gate after [2011's romantic drama] 'Blood And Honey', if I ever directed again, it would have to be a certain kind of film."
Jolie is "looking forward" to watching 'Fifty Shades of Grey', which stars Jamie Dornan as sadomasochistic billionaire Christian Grey while Dakota Johnson plays his love interest Anastasia Steele.
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Subway Maps and Copyright
But are they legally sound? Maps have been protected since the 1790 Copyright Act. The basis for protection in some of the early decisions is unclear: was it sweat of the brow, as a factual compilation, as a visual work, or something else? See e.g., Perris v. Hexamer, 99 U.S. 674 (1878); Blunt v. Patten, 3 F. Cas. 762 (C.C.S.D.N.Y. 1828) and on maps in general in this period, J.B. Harley, The New Nature Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Paul Laxton ed. 2001); John Rennie Short, Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States (1600-1900) (2001). Compendium II of Copyright Office Practices Sec. 509.01 (1984) refers to drawings or pictorial representations "based on original surveying or carto-graphic field work," but this final requirement seems inappropriate after Feist. More persuasive is Mason v. Montgomery Data, Inc., 967 F.2d 135 (5th Cir. 1992), which based protection on the inherent pictorial nature of the map.
A particularly apposite opinion is Streetwise Maps, Inc. v. Vandam, Inc., 159 F.3d 739 (2d Cir. 1998), which involved to a glossy map of New York City. And then there is County of Suffolk, N.Y. v. First American Real Estate Solutions, 261 F.3d 179 (2d Cir. 2001), which injected a new incentives based test for protection. Under that approach, there is no need for the incentive of copyright for the transit authorities to publish the subway maps; they have to anyway, if not by law, by necessity.
Unlike Section 105 of title 17, which bars protection for works of the United States government, there is no bar on state governments (or subdivisions or corporations owned by them) owning copyright, although states are free to ban protection: given states lack vigorous assertion of sovereign immunity, common decency would require them to disavow copyright. There is no statutory bar to protection for original subway maps, therefore. There should, though, be a common sense bar but that, like common decency, is apparently lacking.
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- Anonymous said...
Isn't it irrelevant under what theory maps gain protection since they were in the very first copyright act passed by the first congress in its second session very shortly after the ratification of the Constitution and its copyright clause? Would anyone dispute that the intent of the Framers had been to consider a map as a writing advancing the progress of science - - be it a drawing or be it completely utilitarian. If utilitarian, I would agree that it challenges a whole line of contrary interpretations of works of authorship - - but it's those interpretations that might be worthy of review rather than trying to ex post facto fit maps into their logic.
- William Patry said...
I don't think it is an issue whether they can be protected, but instead how they can be infringed, and that might depend on what is the nature of protection.
- Anonymous said...
Going back to the 1790s, accurate maps were much harder to create (without planes and satellites and all). That's not to claim a sweat of the brow argument, but perhaps maps in the 1790s had a little bigger "artistic element" to them.
I've always figured modern-day maps are only protected to the extent that they aren't dictated by facts. For instance, the color scheme is protected as much as possible, as is any special aspect of the map (perhaps a suggested walking tour). But portions of the map that rely exclusively on facts (eg., where the roads are) cannot be protected.
- William Patry said...
The second Circuit's Streetwise opinion has a pretty good discussion; even on colors, there are conventions like blue for water. There are of course always choices as to facts, what to leave out, what to emphasize, etc.
- Anonymous said...
I wonder if this could be related to concerns about terrorists using subway maps on their iPods. MTA recently proposed, then withdrew, rules banning most photography of the system based on such concerns. Although this concern seems (is?) frivolous, the MTA letter seems awfully short in my opinion to be a serious effort at obtaining license fees. However, it could be an effort by an overworked attorney to appease someone with the MTA police.
- joshua wattles said...
I don't think it is an issue whether they can be protected, but instead how they can be infringed,...
Agreed. But maps in 1790 were clearly utilitarian - - life and death propositions - - and not simply artistic creations. The first congress protected them while not protecting other forms of highly expressive writings such as music notation or illustrations. Current copyright law might not protect maps as expansively, with respect to their utilitarian function by way of example, as the Framers may have had in mind. There is no reason for Article 1 section 8 to have birthed only a bifurcated patent and copyright system. As a Constitutional matter, there could be still be a kind of statutory zebra IP with elements of both particularly for things that are both utilitarian and works of creative expression - - like so many software programs and, apparently, 18th century maps.
- William Patry said...
Copyright protects works of all stripes, fictional and functional like maps. I admit to being baffled by the MTA's motives. Maybe I'll write them.
- William Patry said...
Copyright protects works of all stripes, fictional and functional like maps. I admit to being baffled by the MTA's motives. Maybe I'll write them.
- Erik Schmidt said...
I agree that this really seems like something from left field.
My question is whether as publicly-funded entities these transit agencies have a right to protect copyright. Is the FEMA logo copyrighted? Is the US Army logo copyrighted? Maybe they are and I'm woefullly out of the loop, but it just seems strange as a policy matter for tax-funded entities to be suing taxpayers for using maps paid for by taxes.
- Erik Schmidt said...
Egads. I missed the last paragraph somehow, which answered the legal question I had about states and subordinate entities being able to copyright. Still, as a matter of policy, this seems rather questionable.


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Inside Insurance: Let's not be complacent out there
I never cease to be amazed by how bad weather always seems to appear unexpectedly for so many of us.
The calendar noted the end of January, but that's not important to Mother Nature. Just when you think it is safe to take it easy, a tornado blasts its way through North Georgia and leaves a $75 million path of destruction through the Calhoun area.
When severe weather is indicated, awareness is vital. Second, we must take preventive measures as opposed to "Well, let's just see what happens." From major hurricanes to severe thunderstorm warnings, the same outcome recurs.
News media reports over and over something like this: "The family was asleep when the tornado hit."
"There were no radios or TVs on so the family missed the warnings."
"There was a hurricane party under way and the apartment residents were not aware of the eminent danger."
This is where the rubber meets the road. In the middle of the night when no radios or TVs are on, how is one to know what's about to happen even if broadcast warnings are issued? Tornado sirens are not always available.
The one thing that is widely available is the emergency weather radio with alerts from the National Weather Service. All the great radars that the TV and radio stations have provide no help when we are not watching or listening.
While insurers, weather forecasters and broadcast outlets attempt to communicate with the public about the importance of preparedness, there seems to always be at least someone who died or was seriously injured because of a lack of awareness.
The precautions are every bit as important as the actions one takes after the incident occurs. Consider the potential deadly results when severe weather strikes. Likely the power may be out before your home is in harm's way. The TV is out, plugged-in radios are useless and the only protection one has is a battery-powered AM/FM radio or a weather alert radio short of a back-up generator that automatically starts when the power fails.
Emergency management agencies at the local, state and federal levels always preach about the importance of preparedness. Too often, these warnings go to "I'll get to it soon."
More and better ways of communication help as well. Emergency weather apps for smartphones, tablets and computers are only good if the equipment is on. That gets us back to awareness.
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NEW YORK - March 9, 2012 - Carla Gugino ("Watchmen," "American Gangster," "Entourage"), fresh off her acclaimed run on Broadway in "Road to Mecca," is set to star opposite Sigourney Weaver ("Avatar") in USA Network's provocative six-hour original series POLITICAL ANIMALS, from Warner Horizon Television. Gugino will star as Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter Susan Berg, a hungry DC journalist bent on destroying the career of former First Lady and newly appointed Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Weaver). Slated for the network's blockbuster summer lineup, the event drama comes from acclaimed television and film producers Greg Berlanti ("Brothers & Sisters," "Dirty Sexy Money," "Everwood") and Laurence Mark ("Dreamgirls," "Julie & Julia," "Jerry Maguire") and also stars James Wolk ("Lonestar," "Happy Endings") and Brittany Ishibashi ("Parenthood," FAIRLY LEGAL).
Pulling back the curtain on persuasive public speeches and stirring campaign ads, the fictional look at a former first family exposes a dynasty weakened by political ambition, lust and greed. In the wake of a recent divorce from her philandering ex-husband - who is still as much in love with her as with the office he once held - and the loss of the presidential nomination, Barrish (Weaver) attempts to keep her family together while simultaneously dealing with crises of the State Department and the dogged Berg (Gugino).
POLITICAL ANIMALS is from Berlanti Productions and Laurence Mark Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. Berlanti wrote and will direct the pilot and serves as executive producer of the series with Mark. Melissa Kellner Berman of Berlanti Productions will co-executive produce.
USA is cable's #1 network and a leader in scripted programming with ten original series: BURN NOTICE, COVERT AFFAIRS, FAIRLY LEGAL, IN PLAIN SIGHT, NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, PSYCH, ROYAL PAINS, SUITS, WHITE COLLAR and COMMON LAW launching this May.
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Southeastern got off to a slow start offensively and was unable to recover as they dropped the fall home finale to St. Mary's by a 94-77 margin on Monday night in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 2-7 as the team will wrap the fall portion of the schedule completely when it travels to Bartlesville, Okla., for a 2:30 p.m. matchup with Oklahoma Wesleyan.
Ronay English paced the SE offense which bounced back in the second half after falling behind by 17 points at intermission. English led all scorers in the game with 21 points, 19 of those coming in the second half. She was 8-of-12 from the floor in the second half and 8-of-13 overall, including three second half threes.
Madison Thames also came off the bench to turn in a double-digit performance with 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting.
Five of the top six scoring outings in the contest went to bench players as the Storm reserves put up 57 points on the night.
SE was outrebounded in the contest by a 45-to-36 margin, with Thames and Shelby Hill each picking up six boards to lead the Storm.
Taylor Richards dished out a game-high seven assists, while Bailey Welch added four.
Despite the big advantage in points off the bench, St. Mary's held the edge in every other specialty category, with the biggest gap being a 42-30 lead in points in the paint.
Southeastern jumped to an early 5-2 lead, but a 10-0 Rattler run would give the visitors the lead which they would not relinquish.
The Storm offense struggled to find shots while STMU pulled away, leading by as many as 21 in the first half before SE whittled the deficit back down to 52-35 at halftime.
Haley Schaefer would hit a layup to open the second half that cut the deific tot 15 points, but that was as close as it would get as St. Mary's would reel off a run and lead by as many as 31 points in the second half.
SE kept fighting, however, and used a 17-5 run to close the gap to 82-63 with 4:56 to play.
The Storm would continue battling and English would score the game's final five points to set the final of 94-77.
Southeastern would tie the Rattlers at 42-42 over the second half.


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At almost every campaign appearance in the race for Manhattan District Attorney, Leslie Crocker Snyder talks about how she came to prosecute murder cases. In 1968, when she was twenty-five, she joined the staff of Frank Hogan, who was then the D.A., and quickly mastered the basics of her job, but soon found her progress stymied. "I kept asking Mr. Hogan to go to the homicide bureau, which was a big bastion of male chauvinism at the time," Snyder recalls, "and he kept putting me off, saying I should do consumer affairs, which is where the few women in the office tended to go. And then finally one day I said, 'You know, come on, it's really time, Mr. Hogan.' And he said, 'Well, if you bring me a letter of permission from your husband.' "
When the audience laughter dies down, Snyder always adds that even though she never actually produced such a letter, she still went on to prosecute homicide cases. But the people who come out to Democratic clubs and civic organizations where Snyder is making the rounds sometimes miss the point. Hogan, who took office in 1941, succeeding Thomas E. Dewey, was already old and out of touch by the time Snyder asked for her chance to move up. "By the mid-seventies, things had changed totally," Snyder said recently. "That's when we started to have women in law school, and that's when women started to come into the D.A.'s office in real numbers." In 1973, when Hogan was running for what turned out to be his final term, he would mention that there was a woman in his office trying felony cases—Leslie Crocker Snyder.
Snyder grew up in Baltimore; her father was a professor of literature at Goucher College, and her mother a homemaker. She's been married for thirty-seven years to Fredric Snyder, a successful pediatrician, and they have two grown children; one works in the foreign service and the other in finance. Throughout her career, Snyder has gone after the opportunities that were becoming available to women of her generation. She left the D.A.'s office in 1976—about two years after the new District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, arrived—and soon applied for a criminal-court judgeship. As a prosecutor, she "ably performed to the satisfaction of her supervisors," Morgenthau wrote to the mayor's commission on judicial selection on June 9, 1978. "Mrs. Snyder has a pleasing presence and is well-spoken." It wasn't until 1983, however, that she was named to the criminal court, by Mayor Ed Koch. She spent the next two decades on the bench, often seeking out difficult trials. She retired last year and joined Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, a firm of about a hundred and fifty lawyers that specializes in litigation.
Among the few decorations in Snyder's law office is a laminated front page of the Post—"kill the judge"—from the time a defendant put out a contract on her life. Snyder's style as a judge was pugnacious and led defense lawyers (and their clients) to give her nicknames like Ice Princess and Judge 232, for a sentence she once imposed. (The actual sentence was 213 years.) In a tribute of sorts, one local drug gang distributed bags of heroin stamped with her likeness and the words "25 to Life," and Snyder, in turn, proudly used those words as the title of an autobiography she wrote in 2002.
While Snyder was still a judge, she became a frequent television commentator on legal cases, including the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, and, to an unusual degree, made herself the center of attention inside the courtroom as well. When Bruce Cutler, the lawyer for the late mobster John Gotti, represented another organized-crime figure in a case before her, she grew so annoyed with Cutler that, out of the presence of the jury, she said to him, "If you want to bullshit me, then look me in the eye and do it." At bench conferences, she even registered her distaste for Cutler's cologne. "During the trial, she bought me some toilet water, nice stuff, because she didn't like the Grey Flannel I was wearing," Cutler recalled. (Despite the change in scent, Cutler's client was convicted.) "She's very smart, gave me a very fair trial, but, boy, she's harsh on the sentences," Cutler said. "She gave everybody the maximum." Because of her reputed harshness, Snyder was often the judge favored by Morgenthau's prosecutors, and "judge shopping" formed the basis of a recent appeal by a defendant convicted in her court. The U.S. Court of Appeals said that the practice of letting prosecutors choose judges "raises serious concerns," but still affirmed the conviction. Other defendants have challenged her combativeness—for instance, she called a defense witness "full of baloney." But Snyder never had a conviction overturned on that ground.
Four years ago, Snyder thought about quitting her judgeship and running against Morgenthau. "I wanted to do it then," she told me, "but, out of respect for him, I decided to wait until the next time. I thought there was no way he was going to run again—when he was eighty-six—but I was wrong. He did decide to run again, and this time I wasn't going to wait."
Ever since Snyder left the bench, her law office, on Broadway at Fiftieth Street, has been a staging area for her campaign to take charge of the District Attorney's office. The D.A.'s office prosecutes about a hundred thousand cases each year, and has a staff of five hundred lawyers, a support staff of seven hundred, and a budget of some sixty-five million dollars. Snyder has been a more or less full-time candidate for almost a year, with occasional appearances on cable television to offer commentary on such events as the trial of Scott Peterson. Amid the clutter on her desk is a tiny American flag and a marble paperweight in the shape of a baseball, bearing the inscription "Sometimes you just have to play hardball."
First elected in 1974, Morgenthau is now seeking his ninth term in an office that he has come to embody, perhaps even more than Hogan and Dewey did for earlier generations. Having spent a decade as U.S. Attorney before his election to the D.A.'s office, Morgenthau is approaching a half century as a top prosecutor in New York. He has outlasted dozens of subordinates who might have run to succeed him, including Linda Fairstein, who ran the D.A.'s high-profile sex-crimes unit for more than two decades and is now a best-selling novelist; and Eliot Spitzer, an assistant district attorney from 1986 to 1992, who won election as state attorney general in 1998 and is now running for governor. "I have a high regard for Snyder," Ed Koch says. "I appointed her a judge. But I am for Morgenthau. This man is the premier justice figure in the country."
Morgenthau's network of former prosecutors is loyal in the extreme. "One of the most profoundly rewarding aspects of working for Bob was that he always said the same thing whenever I brought him a hard problem," Fairstein said. "He said, 'Do what you think is right.' I heard it over and over again." Spitzer says, "He's a great public servant and a great man." Robert Morvillo, who was an assistant U.S. attorney under Morgenthau and who then became a successful defense lawyer—his clients have included Martha Stewart—is only slightly more restrained, saying, "I think Leslie is a formidable candidate. She is bright, personable, diligent, and clearly capable of running that office, but I don't think that there is anything that warrants change at this point. Given Morgenthau's contribution to law enforcement in general, I would kind of hope that people would cut him the benefit of the doubt on the age issue." Snyder, however, will not. She is sixty-three and insists that her time is now. "People say he's an icon, but I don't care," she told me. "He's the district attorney of the past, and I'm the district attorney of the future."
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Morgenthau and Snyder showed up at the Arte Café, an Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side, for the annual party of a local club called the Community Free Democrats. In overwhelmingly Democratic Manhattan—John Kerry took eighty-one per cent of the vote—the race for District Attorney will be decided in the Party primary on September 13th, so both candidates have been shuttling among the twenty or so Democratic clubs scattered around town. Snyder arrived at the restaurant first, made a quick circuit around the room, and left, having been largely ignored by the attendees. Even when Morgenthau was running unopposed, as was usually the case, he always stopped by the clubs, and that loyalty has been rewarded. This is his crowd. Morgenthau is hard of hearing, and in these settings he braves the ambient noise, puts on a fixed smile, sticks out his hand, and announces "Good to see ya" to anyone who crosses his path. The restaurant was full of assemblymen and state senators who might have run against Morgenthau if they thought he was vulnerable. But none of these elected officials betrayed any on-the-record concern about Morgenthau's health, political or otherwise. "The only way Leslie has a chance is if people think he's too old," Jerrold Nadler, the Upper West Side's man in Congress, said over the cheery din.
After about half an hour, Morgenthau left. He boarded an S.U.V., and his driver headed downtown to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, for a ceremony honoring a town in the Dominican Republic that took in refugees from the Holocaust. It was an ideal political double play in a borough with a great many Jewish and Dominican voters.
Morgenthau comes from one of the nation's most distinguished Jewish families. Henry Morgenthau, Sr., the youngest of fourteen children, emigrated from Germany in 1866, went through the city's public schools, and ultimately made a fortune in real estate. He also began the Morgenthau tradition of public service, as Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Turkey. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Robert's father, was Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945, almost the duration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency. As the family's scion, Robert Morgenthau has made New York his domain. In addition to being D.A., he chairs the Jewish Heritage Museum's board of directors and has served as a trustee of Temple Emanu-El, the citadel of German Jewry, on Fifth Avenue.
At the museum, Morgenthau showed me around an exhibit on the role of American Jews in the armed forces during the Second World War. As he stared through the picture windows overlooking New York Harbor, he said, "This place means a lot to me, because when I was in the Navy we led convoys across the Atlantic and came back right this way, past Fort Lafayette, in Brooklyn. Many years later, I went looking for Fort Lafayette, and I couldn't even find it on a map. What the hell happened to it? Am I losing my mind? Then I found out it was torn down to make room for the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge." The Germans sank one of Morgenthau's ships in the Mediterranean, and Japanese kamikazes attacked another in the Pacific. The noise from shelling cost Morgenthau much of his hearing.
Morgenthau, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, was never exactly an ordinary seaman. "In 1942, we pulled into Charleston for repairs and I went on home leave to our farm in Dutchess County," Morgenthau said. "F.D.R. had brought Churchill there for a meeting. F.D.R. liked my mint juleps, so I made them for both of them. Churchill kept asking me what I thought about the Battle of Midway. I'd just gotten off a ship, where I was completely cut off from all news. I didn't know a goddam thing about the Battle of Midway."
After the war, Morgenthau attended Yale Law School; he graduated in 1948, and in the nineteen-fifties he worked for an old-line New York law firm, Patterson, Belknap & Webb. A friend from Yale, Byron (Whizzer) White, eventually provided the start for his political career, recruiting him to organize the Bronx for John F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign. White served as Robert Kennedy's deputy in the Justice Department (before being named to the Supreme Court, in 1962). White and R.F.K. persuaded the President to name Morgenthau U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a job that remains the great prosecutorial plum of the federal government.
Morgenthau's days as U.S. Attorney, which lasted from 1961 until 1970, remain the most vivid and successful period of his professional life. He pioneered the criminal investigations that have been a hallmark of that office ever since, notably under such successors as Rudolph Giuliani and Mary Jo White. Morgenthau prosecuted an early generation of stock swindlers, opened up Swiss bank secrecy laws, and went after a variety of crooked politicians, many of them Democrats. "That was the first office that started a securities-fraud unit, which is now the fashionable thing known as white-collar crime," Stephen Kaufman, who was chief of the criminal division under Morgenthau, said. "Bob is offended by unfairness, and has an old-fashioned sense of rectitude, especially about people who should know better."
Cases against the well-off and the well-defended have been touchstones of Morgenthau's career—and Morgenthau has set his assistant district attorneys to work on the same kinds of cases he prosecuted as U.S. Attorney. This focus on white-collar crime—a traditional province of federal prosecutors—is at the heart of Snyder's critique. "Morgenthau has said that he spends almost half his budget on white-collar cases, and that's too much," Snyder said when we talked at her campaign headquarters, a mostly empty loft-style office near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. (The D.A.'s office says the figure is closer to a quarter.) Snyder insists that most of those cases belong in federal court, adding, "The feds have much sounder legal jurisdiction and a better budget to do it. And they can often do it better. Those cases really haven't gone very well for the Manhattan D.A.'s office." Snyder would take the money from white-collar investigations and use it to send prosecutors into schools and community centers to mentor young people.
As U.S. Attorney, Morgenthau won virtually all of his important cases (except, notably, prosecutions of the right-wing lawyer Roy Cohn). His tenure as D.A., though, has included several embarrassing setbacks in major white-collar prosecutions. After the collapse, in 1991, of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which was based in the Cayman Islands and controlled by Middle Eastern investors, Morgenthau charged Clark Clifford, the Washington lawyer-lobbyist and former Secretary of Defense, and Clifford's partner, Robert A. Altman, with lying about whether they knew that B.C.C.I. had financed a Washington bank they controlled. Altman was acquitted after a five-month trial, and all charges were dropped against Clifford, because of his age—eighty-six—and ill health. Likewise, Morgenthau's ardent pursuit of the leaders of Tyco, the Bermuda-based conglomerate, has yielded little so far. The first prosecution of Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco's former, spendthrift C.E.O., ended in a mistrial; a second trial is now under way. The case against Mark Belnick, Tyco's general counsel, concluded with a vindication of the defendant.
In part because of his interest in white-collar cases, Morgenthau has fought a series of vicious turf wars with federal prosecutors, especially Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney from 1993 to 2002. (During the most bizarre of these battles, on December 3, 1997, James M. Kindler, Morgenthau's chief assistant, went into federal court to ask the judge to refuse a guilty plea from a defendant in a securities-fraud case. He said that White's office was trying to "thwart our investigation, to stop our prosecution" in a related case. The judge rebuffed Kindler and accepted the plea.) "You have two of the finest law-enforcement offices in the world two blocks from each other," White, who is now a partner at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, says. White is known for measuring her words to the point of blandness, but she has enthusiastically endorsed Snyder and is the chairwoman of Snyder for New York. Of her relationship with Morgenthau, White says, "I don't think our bumps in the road were unusual for those two offices—less than some, more than others. As Leslie thinks about her own priorities, she wants a more coöperative relationship."
Snyder says that she wants closer ties between federal and state anti-terrorism officials, too. "The federal authorities are on the front lines on terrorism, and we've now got a Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, who has done a great job of coördinating his operation with Washington," Snyder said. "But Morgenthau doesn't coöperate. He is obsessed by international white-collar cases and terrorism investigations that he shouldn't be doing. I am not going to send my assistant district attorneys to Venezuela at taxpayer expense for cases that are tenuous legally, that the feds could do better."
When I visited Morgenthau at his office, I asked about his interest in these far-flung investigations. He has perhaps the biggest office in New York; it's on the eighth floor of an Art Deco tower called Hogan Place, a few blocks north of City Hall. The room is about forty feet long, with three desks and a conference table, all piled high with papers. Dozens of plaques line the windowsills and baseboards, and framed memorabilia, with a special emphasis on F.D.R. and the Navy, cover most of the wood-panelled walls. Visitors are ushered in to see "the Boss," as Morgenthau is known here, by his assistant, Ida Van Lindt, who has worked for him since he started as District Attorney, and who spent the previous seventeen years in a similar role with Frank Hogan.
"We're spending a lot of time on money-laundering terrorists," he said. "Something we can't, you know, talk about too much, but I'm very concerned about these terrorist organizations. So we're going after the money-movement stuff." He called the process "a slow business," and added cryptically, "I've had people down in Paraguay, because, you know, there's a big radical group down there. Hezbollah's big in Paraguay. So people talk about turf wars. I mean, what we're trying to do is fill in the gaps for people who aren't doing anything."
When it comes to these complex terror-related investigations, Morgenthau is prone to Delphic insinuation. "We're very concerned about the widespread use of offshore accounts—there is more than a trillion dollars on account in the Cayman Islands," he recently told the Park River Independent Democrats, who seemed baffled by the revelation. "We've been trying to trace those funds."
Morgenthau has an almost unlimited faith in his ability to wrestle complex investigations into manageable trials and eventual convictions. At one point, he told me, with apparent seriousness, that the only reason he couldn't prosecute Osama bin Laden was that it would cause traffic tie-ups. "If we made a case against one of the major figures, we'd have to turn it over to the United States Attorney's office, because we don't have the facilities," he said. "I mean, if we try one of those cases, the traffic would be backed up to Fourteenth Street and down to the Battery."
When the two candidates recently appeared side by side at the local office of the National Organization for Women, Snyder did her best to accentuate the age difference between them, without ever saying directly that Morgenthau was too old for the job. Snyder looks the part of a corporate lawyer and stands to answer questions. Morgenthau remains seated. When Morgenthau indicated that he couldn't hear several questions, Snyder rolled her eyes. Snyder walks at a breakneck pace, while Morgenthau has a painfully slow shuffle.
Morgenthau, though, seems comfortable with his age. (The first line of his biography on the D.A.'s Web site reads, "Robert Morris Morgenthau was born on July 31, 1919, in New York City.") Not long ago, he recalled his fondness for taking the elevated train on Columbus Avenue, near his boyhood home, on Eighty-first Street; the line shut down in 1940. Morgenthau doesn't pretend to any familiarity with popular culture, but he doesn't need to. "Women's rights have always been very important to me," he told the group at now. "On a personal note, my mother was a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt."
Because of his fixation on white-collar crime, in these campaign appearances Morgenthau neglects a subject that most district attorneys would embrace as a singular accomplishment: violent crime in Manhattan has plummeted in the past thirty years. The number of homicides in the city is the lowest since 1963, and the current murder rate in Manhattan is the lowest since formal record-keeping began, in 1937. Since 1975, robberies have fallen by eighty-three per cent, forcible rapes by seventy-one per cent, and felonious assaults by fifty-seven per cent. Crime has fallen faster and farther in Manhattan than in any other borough.
Still, it's questionable how much credit Morgenthau deserves for this transformation. Crime began falling during the David Dinkins years and plunged under Mayor Giuliani, when William Bratton, as Police Commissioner, introduced a series of innovations, like Comstat, which required precinct commanders to measure and take responsibility for crime in their districts. "The reality is that, like the city itself, the reduction in crime was a complex thing, and there were many causes," Bratton, who is now the police chief in Los Angeles, said. Bratton, whose relationship with Morgenthau was rarely smooth, found Morgenthau less than willing to adopt new strategies. "Bob's office had a multiple focus, and there was a lot of interest in his international cases," Bratton said. "White-collar cases sucked up a lot of resources. Oftentimes, it did take a little more cajoling to get those types of efforts"—new police strategies—"to move forward than in other boroughs."
For his part, Morgenthau has an idiosyncratic explanation for the decline in violent crime, one that seems to reflect his relative lack of interest in the issue. "One of the things that I give some credit to is the Police Athletic League," he said, citing an after-school program that he has long supported. "I mean, we greatly expanded our programs. We now have seventy thousand boys and girls in pal." Founded in 1914, pal is a popular program, underwritten by a mixture of city funds and private contributions, but few people ascribe great crime-fighting significance to it. Some of Bratton's subordinates take a harsher view of Morgenthau's role. "Morgenthau was anti-progress in our day," a high-ranking police official during the Giuliani years, who insisted on anonymity, told me. "We went to Brooklyn and Queens, and they embraced technology and change, and we cut the time from arrest to arraignment by a third. In Manhattan, they fought any attempt to change things, to streamline things. They dug their feet in and said, 'That's not how we do things here.' "
From afar, Bratton is supporting Snyder, who presided at his wedding in 2001. "As good a job as Bob has done over the years, there comes a point in time in any organization, no matter how well run, that new ideas, new initiatives, and new players are needed," he said. "As a personality, as a woman, as a judge, Leslie is remarkable in all those areas. I'm somebody who has been described as a change agent. So is she."
Morgenthau's detractors do give him credit for curbing the violence that beset Manhattan during the crack epidemic of the late nineteen-eighties and early nineties. "Morgenthau set up the Homicide Investigation Unit, and H.I.U. was a phenomenal success in taking out the drug gangs that had taken over large parts of upper Manhattan," the former senior police official said. "These gangs, like the Wild Cowboys and the Jheri Curls, were like murder factories, and getting them off the street did a tremendous amount to make the city safer." And yet even those cases have become something of a mixed blessing for Morgenthau's campaign, because the judge who presided over them was Leslie Crocker Snyder.
Snyder says that her time on the bench suggests the kind of district attorney she will be. One day, while being driven to a campaign appearance, she reminisced about the Jheri Curls trial, in 1993. "The Jheri Curls shaved half their heads and had permed curls on the rest," she said. "They called this guy Rafi 'the father.' A super in one of the buildings in the blocks they controlled in Washington Heights had the guts to try to stop them from dealing, and Rafi ordered one of his people to take the super into the middle of the block and assassinate him in broad daylight. Nice, huh?
"So at one point while the jury is out, they bring in Lenny Sepulveda, who is a leader of the Wild Cowboys, to be arraigned in front of me," she continued. "He rolls in, and he's got the typical street macho thing going. He thinks he's still on the street. And when I remand him, he says, 'Fuck this!' as he was being brought into the pen. Now, one thing I never allowed in my courtroom was to be treated with disrespect by anyone. So I told them to bring him back in here. I told him, 'You may be king on the street, but you're going to learn to behave yourself in here, or you'll watch your trial from your cell and I'll just pipe in the sound,' which I had the right to do. I never had a problem with him again. Meanwhile, there was a couple waiting to get married in the courtroom. I think they may have been former jurors of mine. I've married a lot of my former jurors. And I say to them, 'Are you sure you want to do this right here?' I mean, there was a lot going on. But they said no, let's go ahead, and so I came down from the bench and married them. As I recall, it was her second marriage and his third, so they just wanted to get it done."
Snyder's vaunted toughness, though, may not be what the Manhattan electorate wants. The combination of the borough's pervasive liberalism and the reduced fear of crime makes this election resemble a reverse image of a typical race for prosecutor. Morgenthau spends much of his time boasting about people he wouldn't prosecute (like most of the protesters arrested at the Republican National Convention) and advocating lower sentences for the ones he did (including many narcotics offenders). He has one tested applause line: "I am very concerned that there is not enough money to get people into drug treatment when we're wasting thirty million dollars a year on the death penalty, which I have always opposed." (The death penalty was reinstated in 1995, but the state Court of Appeals last year effectively struck down the statute.) Snyder supports the death penalty, and at Party events she invariably draws hostile questions on the subject. Even though the death penalty is likely to remain off the books indefinitely and is not a real issue, her support for the idea of executions remains a political liability in Manhattan.
To change the subject, and to demonstrate that she's not really so bloodthirsty, Snyder always returns to the so-called Palladium case. In 1990, two bouncers were shot—one of them was killed—during a melee in front of the Palladium, a night club on East Fourteenth Street. Two years later, two men were tried and convicted of the crimes, and sentenced to twenty-five years to life. The two apparently didn't know each other—one, David Lemus, spoke only English and the other, Olmedo Hidalgo, only Spanish—but the jury believed eyewitness testimony that tied them to the crimes. In 1995, a federal prosecutor was interviewing a witness in an unrelated case when the witness confessed that he and another man had murdered the bouncer. The witness said that Lemus and Hidalgo had had nothing to do with it.
The prosecutor, Steven Cohen, reported the confession to lawyers in the D.A.'s office, who said that they would look into it. Ten years later, the D.A.'s office is still looking into it, even as more evidence has surfaced pointing to the innocence of Lemus and Hidalgo. Last year, the D.A.'s office issued a progress report to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services stating, "Substantial new evidence indicates that Lemus and Hidalgo were not involved in the homicide." Then, in late March, fifteen years after the crime but just a few weeks after Snyder started raising the issue in the campaign, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Thomas Morales, who was named by Cohen's source, as the gunman in the Palladium murder.
The case has come to resemble the kind of justice associated with stereotypical Southern sheriffs, rather than with the Manhattan District Attorney. Morgenthau's office now appears to be advocating conflicting versions of the same crime—prosecuting Morales in one courtroom and opposing Lemus and Hidalgo's bid for a new trial in another. Morgenthau refuses to discuss the merits of the Palladium case, because it is being litigated. "Most of the stuff that they"—the defendants—"are raising is information that we provided them with," he said. "And two judges have already looked into it and rejected their claims. But we're still looking into the case." Steven Cohen, who is now in private practice, says, "What the D.A. has done in this case is an outrage. They know these men are innocent, and yet they refuse even to give them a new trial." According to Snyder, "This case shows what happens when an office gets no scrutiny for twenty, thirty years. You get complacent, and you get this kind of result."
Snyder sees the same complacency in Morgenthau's handling of the notorious Central Park jogger case. On the evening of April 19, 1989, a young investment banker was raped and beaten nearly to death while jogging in Central Park. Several other people were also attacked in the Park that night. In the following days, police and prosecutors from Morgenthau's office interrogated a group of teen-agers, all of them black or Hispanic. Their statements were the key evidence in trials the following year, which ended with the conviction of five defendants. In the course of the trials, police disclosed that semen found on the jogger had not been linked to any of the defendants.
In 2002, a convicted rapist named Matias Reyes came forward in prison to say that he had raped the jogger, and had done so alone. DNA tests showed that the semen was his. Morgenthau asked Nancy Ryan, a senior aide, to lead a re-investigation of the jogger case, and in December the District Attorney consented to the dismissal of all charges against every defendant in the case. He did so without requiring Reyes to testify in public about whether he had acted alone.
Many in the Police Department, along with Linda Fairstein, who supervised the prosecution, thought that Ryan, and thus Morgenthau, had capitulated unnecessarily. Fairstein has said that although Reyes "completed the assault," she had no doubt that the others were involved. A police review panel agreed with her, concluding, "The most likely scenario for the events of April 19, 1989, was that the defendants came upon the jogger and subjected her to the same kind of attack, albeit with sexual overtones, that they inflicted upon other victims in the park that night." (Fairstein is not commenting on her preference in the D.A. race.)
Morgenthau defends the decision to drop the jogger case. "It was a no-brainer," he said. "I knew it was going to make a lot of people unhappy, but I just didn't see any other way that it could go. If we had had this guy as a witness saying, I did it and I did it alone, it would certainly have been a very different trial. We might not have even charged the other people with the rape." Morgenthau's immediate surrender in the jogger case makes a notable contrast with his hard line in the Palladium matter. "They want to evaluate the evidence on their own—no new trial in Palladium, no testimony by Reyes in the jogger case," Snyder told me. "What they have in common is the arrogance" of the D.A.'s office. Morgenthau, she says, "is not running the office. He has people running the office who have been there for twenty-five, thirty years, since I was there."
In the end, however, such an argument is unlikely to be enough to defeat Morgenthau. It usually requires a crime wave or a corruption scandal to force a sitting district attorney out of office—especially a legendary figure like Morgenthau—and neither event is likely to occur soon. Also, in local races the endorsement of the Times tends to be crucial, and the paper has long supported Morgenthau. The history of the Manhattan District Attorney's office offers comfort to Morgenthau, but it also brings a warning. It wasn't until 1973, when Frank Hogan was running for his ninth term, that he finally drew a serious challenger, and the race had several parallels to the current contest. The outsider was William vanden Heuvel, a young lawyer with close ties to the Kennedy family. He charged Hogan with being out of touch and adopted the venerable slogan "It's time for a change." As Andy Logan noted in these pages, it was "a bitter campaign, in which age and fading energies were frequently mentioned. ('It used to be Frank Hogan. Now it's Frank Hogan, aged seventy-one,' the District Attorney complained.)"
Thanks in part to an endorsement from the Times, Hogan wound up winning the June primary with ease. Then, on August 10th, he checked into St. Luke's Hospital for what his wife called routine tests. Over the next few weeks, his staff issued reassuring bulletins about his health, and the August 23rd filing deadline for new candidates passed. Then, on September 11th, the Post published two pages of Hogan's medical records from St. Luke's, reporting that the District Attorney had been brought to the hospital after a stroke and that he had since been operated on for lung cancer. Hogan never returned to the office. He resigned shortly after winning the election and died a few months later. Governor Malcolm Wilson named a little-known attorney named Richard Kuh as Hogan's successor, and in 1974 Morgenthau defeated Kuh.
Now Morgenthau, who was born closer to the Presidency of Martin Van Buren than to that of George W. Bush, is looking ahead. "I have a lot of unfinished business here," he said. Indeed, Morgenthau believes that he may go on even longer than another four-year term. As I was getting ready to leave his office, I asked him whether he would promise not to run for a tenth term in 2009, when he will be ninety years old. "Never say never," Morgenthau said. "Wouldn't want to be a lame duck." ♦


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(CNN) -- Maria de Villota, who has been a pioneer for women in Formula One, has died aged 33.
The Spaniard, who was a reserve driver for the Marussia team during the 2012 season, was found dead in a hotel room in Seville, according to local media reports.
De Villota, the daughter of former F1 driver Emilio de Villota, was in Seville to launch her autobiography.
"Dear friends: Maria has left us," read a statement from her family on De Villota's official Facebook page.
De Villota's first outing in an F1 car proved to be her last.
Read: Vettel not thinking about world title
She lost her right eye and suffered serious head and facial injuries after crashing into a stationary truck during a Marussia test event in June 2012.
In another statement released Saturday, her family said her death was linked to the accident.
"Maria left us while she was sleeping, approximately at 6 a.m., as a consequence of the neurological injuries that she suffered in July of 2012, according to what the forensic doctor has told us," her sister, Isabel, said.
"Maria is gone, but she has left us a very clear message of joy and hope, which is helping the family move on in these moments."
The F1 community, in Japan for Sunday's grand prix at the Suzuka Circuit, flocked to pay its respects to the former World Touring Car Championship and Euroseries 3000 driver.
Read: Vettel lauds Red Bull's hard work
"The whole paddock is very shocked by the news that Maria is no longer with us," read a statement from Formula One Teams' Association chairman Martin Whitmarsh.
Overwhelming expressions of love & admiration for Maria today. The news has come as such a shock to our whole Team and is still sinking in— Marussia F1 Team (@Marussia_F1Team) October 11, 2013
"She was an inspiration not just to women in this sport, but also to all those who suffered life-threatening injuries."
De Villota's former Marussia colleagues were among the many teams who paid their respects.
"It is with great sadness that we learned a short time ago of the news that Maria de Villota has passed away," read a Marussia statement.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Maria's family and friends at this very difficult time."
The McLaren team echoed those thoughts, saying via Twitter: "Even though we're far away, the whole team's hearts and minds are with the family of Maria de Villota at this terrible, terrible time..."
"Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Maria de Villota following the tragic news of her passing today," Mercedes said, also using Twitter.
"Her courage, determination and hope were an example and inspiration to many. She will be sadly missed by our sport."
#RIPMariadeVillota Such an inspirational woman.. My thoughts are with her family at such a difficult time.— Jenson Button (@JensonButton) October 11, 2013
"We'd like to echo the thoughts of the whole paddock and express our deepest condolences on the news of Maria de Villota's passing. RIP," added Caterham, while Sauber said,"We are shocked to hear about the death of Maria de Villota.
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Good news from Europe! The euro surged Friday morning on news of a deal to help recapitalize banks. Bond yields in Spain and Italy fell. Stocks around the world rallied and there was a nice pop on Wall Street as well.
Bad news from Europe! The euro surged Friday morning on news of a deal to help recapitalize banks. Bond yields in Spain and Italy fell. Stocks around the world rallied and there was a nice pop on Wall Street as well.
Every time European leaders announce some sort of piecemeal solution to the continent's debt crisis, the financial markets act as if the ref just blew the final whistle to end a soccer match. (Forza Azzurri!)
Unfortunately, that gives European leaders a false sense of security. We've seen this play out numerous times since Greece first started dominating financial headlines in early 2010.
The euro jumped to nearly $1.27 Friday. The fact that it remains higher than where it was at its lows during the summer of 2010 means that the market still doesn't believe there is a realistic chance that the eurozone could unravel. Absent that fear, European officials can be content doing little to tackle long-term problems.
"Once again, we are seeing this knee-jerk reaction where bond yields fall and the euro and European bank shares rally. But after a month, this may all come undone and countries will be going back to the begging bowl. It's sad that investors continue to fall for this," said Graham Summers, chief market strategist for Phoenix Capital Research in Charlottesville, Va.
To be fair, the agreement to give a single body use of the EU's bailout funds to assist banks is a step in the right direction. But it's a Band-Aid when what's needed is a tourniquet.
"Taking care of recapitalizing the banks does help, but both sides have to give more concessions. Europe has to issue eurobonds and there needs to be pan-European taxation and control over budgets. That is what is nagging the eurozone," said Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX Strategy with BK Asset Management in New York. "This is by no means an end."
Related: Economists predict multiple eurozone exits
So what's next? Probably more rhetoric and political posturing. Keep in mind that the permanent bailout fund, known as the European Stability Mechanism, still doesn't technically exist. It must be approved by all 17 of the nations using the euro currency by July 9.
That's less than two weeks away. There is no time for EC president Herman Van Rompuy to call together another one of his treasured summits in Brussels or issue a Kumbayah-esque communique about the importance of unity before then. Leaders will have to stop talking and actually do something.
"The problem with the euro is that it's a constant battle between politics and economics. Leaders understand what needs to be done but don't seem capable of acting on it. Keep in mind that there is a big gulf between what leaders promise and what they actually do," Schlossberg said. "This is not a time to rest on their laurels. They need to back things up with quick action."
There's also the tiny issue of how Europe really intends to fund the ESM.
"There is a lack of credibility and questions about where the money for the ESM is going to come from," said Camilla Sutton, chief currency strategist with Scotiabank in Toronto. "This plan doesn't accomplish everything and doesn't provide a plan for the type of longer-term ties that are needed. It's not a dramatic enough change to keep the euro rallying."
Summers notes that about 30% of the ESM's capital is supposed to come from Spain and Italy … the two nations that are arguably in most need of assistance.
"Spain and Italy are going to bail themselves out? That's ridiculous. If Europe can find an extra trillion or 1.5 trillion euros lying around to put to use, that would be helpful," he quipped.
Related: Germany and France tout growth pact
Schlossberg added that the only way to truly stop the bleeding in Europe is for the European Central Bank to step up like the Federal Reserve has done. So far, the ECB has not been willing to be as aggressive as the Fed. That could change soon though. The ECB meets next week and there are growing calls for it to lower rates from their current level of 1%.
"The ECB is the only actor that can fix things quickly. It needs to come in and provide massive liquidity, slash rates and buy sovereign debt," Schlossberg said.
What if that doesn't happen? Sutton thinks the euro will likely remain in a narrow range. It's unlikely to strengthen to above $1.30. And even if it weakens slightly, that won't set off any alarm bells since it would help make European exports more competitive. The euro would have to plunge to finally serve as a true wake-up call. "Concerns would only develop if there was a sudden, quick shift down in the euro," she said.
But that's unlikely. So we may be talking about yet another summit in the fall where yet another new plan is announced that saves Europe once and for all. It will be met with a euphoric reaction at first — and then reality will once again set in.
All the while, the rest of the world will continue to languish since there is no global recovery without Europe getting back on its feet. China is slowing and will slow further if its biggest trading partner remains comatose. That in turn will hurt Brazil and other emerging markets. And it will hurt the United States.
"Europe is frustrating," said Sanjeev Sardana, chief executive of BluePointe Capital Management in San Mateo, Calif. "There is still a lot to fear because the global economy is starting to suffer. Decoupling is a myth."


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May 01, 2005
Last December Denny Park, an affordable housing project in Seattle's South Lake Union area, broke ground. When completed, the Denny Park Apartments will include 50 residential units over street level commercial space; these units will range from studios to three-bedroom apartments. Denny Park will target families and individuals who earn less than 60% of the area median and who work in the downtown and South Lake Union areas of Seattle.The nonprofit, Low Income Housing Institute, is developing Denny Park, which was designed by Runberg Architectural Group and will be constructed by the Rafn Company. The Denny Park Apartments will incorporate many sustainable-design features, including the use of collected storm water for landscape irrigation; abundant daylighting; low-VOC materials; and the orientation of the building along an east-west axis, for maximum solar exposure. The project satisfies 159 different items on the Seattle BuiltGreen Certification Checklist for sustainable design. Like more than 100,000 other affordable housing units built each year in the United States, Denny Park will benefit from federal low-income housing tax credits. However, Denny Park will also benefit from a new nationwide building fund ...
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Thanks to energy-efficiency programs, America's insatiable appetite for electricity could be curbed by as much as 22% over the next two decades. A recent analysis performed by the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) says that if key barriers can be addressed, the potential U.S. energy savings in 2030 would be 236 billion kilowatt-hours — equivalent to the annual electricity used by New York City 14 times over. Put another way, the demand for electricity over the next 20 years could be decreased from the 1.07% annual growth rate projected by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its 2008 Annual Energy Outlook down to 0.83%.
According to the EPRI analysis, "Assessment of Achievable Savings Potential from Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the U.S.," under ideal circumstances favorable to energy-efficiency programs, the consumption growth rate could be further reduced to as low as 0.68% annually by 2030. Attaining this ideal, however, would necessitate costly investments and both political and regulatory support.
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An Austrian businessman has been ordered to pay $62 million to a Colorado developer, professional golfer Jesper Parnevik and another investor in a Breckenridge condominium deal that collapsed in debt.
But Erwin Lasshofer, a resident of Salzburg, apparently has no intention of paying, despite mounting fines of $10,000 a day, a warrant for his arrest for contempt of court and the wrath of an increasingly frustrated federal judge.
"Suffice it to say that this was a first in this court's experience," U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Denver wrote in an order in April.
Jackson also ordered Lasshofer to pay $10,000 a day until he ponies up $2.18 million to Parnevik, developer John Niemi and Robert Naegele, a third partner. That tab reached $820,000 on Sunday, but Lasshofer has ignored every order issued by Jackson. Kevin Evans, Lasshofer's lawyer, said Lasshofer has no U.S. assets that could be seized.
It is unlikely that the arrest warrant will lead to Lasshofer's extradition, said former Denver District Court Judge Christina Habas, a lawyer with Keating Wagner Polidori Free. "Even though it is a criminal process, it is in a civil case. Now, if he was under indictment …"
Evans said the plaintiffs — Niemi, Parnevik and Naegele — have no grounds for their lawsuit, and have misled the judge. Lasshofer's lawyers also say Jackson lacks jurisdiction in the case, and they are appealing the judgment.
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