Cover: May 25, 1987

Rudy Giuliani

April 19, 1999 "Giuliani has looked like a man without an agenda, other than his ambition for higher office. Even key aides, when asked for specific policy initiatives being pursued, come up with little more than bromides about continuing the quality-of-life campaign. As he lurches from one ugly skirmish to another -- cabbies, street vendors, pedestrians -- he seems to have grown little in his five and a half years in office."

May 29, 2000 "Mayor Giuliani's withdrawal from the race showed him to be a different man -- humble, grateful, ready to reach out. What changed him? His illness -- and his romance... He seemed to have shed his hard outer shell like an old suit. He focused on the personal and talked about striving to be a better person. And he wanted to reach out to those who felt ignored. Stunningly, here was the mayor saying all the things so many people have been trying to get him to say for so long."

September 15, 2002 "Rudy is on the move. Rudy is vital. People yearn to experience his presence. And it goes far deeper than celebrity. Giuliani is an authentic American hero, a man whose days of sadness and glory were felt in real time by tens of millions in a shared cultural moment of overwhelming emotional power. This has made him an unprecedented character in American politics -- someone whose appeal is extrapolitical."