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		<title>How am I doing?</title>
		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:46:43 GMT" pgfnum="18051" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/02/01/koch.gif&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named koch.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ed-koch-mayor-symbol-nyc-dies-article-1.1252914&quot;&gt;The death&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Koch&quot;&gt;Mayor Koch&lt;/a&gt; is not a surprise. At 88 he had become frail. Now come the memorials. Let's hope they don't lose their perspective. Ed Koch was no saint. He had a sharp tongue, and over his many years in public life he made many enemies. But he was also much loved in NY. Before Koch, the city was drifting in a post-Robert Moses funk. It was dirty and unsafe and in many ways just didn't work. Koch did much to turn the city around. And he didn't apologize for being a New Yorker. When he asked &quot;How am I doing?&quot; don't think it wasn't with much irony. What could &lt;i&gt;possibly&lt;/i&gt; stop a New Yorker from telling you how you're doing. And it's not usually going to come with a hug or a pat on the back, although Koch was the exception, on the boardwalk in Coney Island or in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/nyregion/edward-i-koch-ex-mayor-of-new-york-dies.html&quot;&gt;subway&lt;/a&gt; under Manhattan, people told him to keep up the good work. We appreciated what he was doing for the city. NY is and was and always will be a tough place, on a personal level. But it's a place of symbols. Koch was us, and the reflection wasn't so bad. We have a sense of humor, a sense of what-the-fuck. Somehow we'll get through this, and a feeling that it can be better if we work together, dammit. Koch embodied that for his generation."></outline>
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