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The next schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, became a close friend of the Mayor’s, smoking cigars and going to Yankees games with him. But Crew, too, ran afoul of Giuliani—he refused to endorse school vouchers, a measure that Giuliani, after years of opposing, had suddenly decided to support—and he, too, was hounded out. (“It’s tragic how wounded this man really is,” Crew later said of Giuliani. “And wounded people inevitably wound other people.”)
The Political Scene: Old Habits: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker