https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1594 Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:36:22 +0000 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....]]>