Terry Heckler died on May 5 this year, a little less than a year after his friend and former business partner Gordon Bowker passed away. Their era is over but their legacy of inspired lunacy lives on.
On opening weekend, “The Odyssey,” a three-hour movie based on a 3,000-year-old poem, earned box office receipts of more than $264.1 million. CinemaScore reported that viewers gave the movie an “A” grade. What was the appeal?
When I helped design this anti-crime program, we built safeguards in from day one. But the mayor's pause has hardened into paralysis, and the neighborhoods that can least afford it are paying the price.
Every such disruption changes the rules, creates new winners and losers, and generates new efforts to ameliorate downsides as citizens stagger forward, unequally blessed and cursed by so much progress.
