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Rudy Giuliani, Triumphant

So Rudy is the person of the year. We join the world in offering a cheer To him--a man, some thought, was sent by heaven To guide us through the shock of 9/11. At certain times, it now must be conceded, A paranoid control freak's just what's needed.

Calvin Trillin

January 3, 2002

So Rudy is the person of the year. We join the world in offering a cheer To him–a man, some thought, was sent by heaven To guide us through the shock of 9/11. At certain times, it now must be conceded, A paranoid control freak’s just what’s needed.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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