http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1594 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1594#comments Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:36:22 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1594 The rushed decisions are the worst. Imagine being a politician: not an orator or a legislator, but an administrator, one who governs, daily responsible for implementing policies devised by others. Imagine constantly making decisions with incomplete understanding and insufficient knowledge and not enough time to fill either gap; living with the paranoia—after all, does not the word bear translation as "higher knowledge"—that nearly everyone around you has a hidden agenda and plays you for a sucker....]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1594/feed 0