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	<title><![CDATA[Giants Of New York Politics]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-guida/leaders-of-latter-day_b_225578.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p> Jimmy Breslin once described Rudolph Giuliani as "a small man looking for a balcony."</p>

<p> Breslin's caustic dismissal of "America's mayor" rebounds to memory at the sight of the current unpleasantness in Albany. New Yorkers are reluctant witnesses to an opera buffa orchestrated by several democratic state senators on the grift. They ask not what they can do for the Empire State. They ask only how much they can scarf from the state trough. Unlike the solipsistic Rudy they don't...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[New York]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-04T18:59:00-04:00</date_published>
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