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To watch Giuliani speak an 80-minute State of the City address was exhausting but impressive. While most politicians in that situation would read a speech for 20 or 30 minutes, he would speak into a mike, without a podium, a prompter, or notes for 80 minutes. As he spoke, the mayor gathered steam saying, “We should be ashamed that we don’t have the political courage to take on the unions, the special interests, and everything else.“ Then, as if to affirm his place in history despite his low approval rating, he displayed two contrasting blowups of Time magazine covers, published a decade apart. The first, from 1990, bore the legend, ”The Rotting of the Big Apple,“ while the second, dated Jan. 11, 2000 featured a photo of the massive millennium Times Square celebration that had taken place only days earlier in a cleaner, more economically viable New York City.