In speaking about his responsibility throughout David Dinkins's mayoralty for putting together the Mayor's Management Report, former Director of the Mayor's Office of Operations Harvey Robins told us Nov. 25 that he produced "the last honest book that was ever written" regarding municipal-service delivery.
He wasn't trying to be funny. After Rudy Giuliani succeeded Mr. Dinkins as Mayor in 1994, the MMR, while continuing to offer nuggets of useful statistics, brought to mind "Accentuate the Positive," the song that played over the opening credits of "L.A. Confidential" featuring the lyric, "You've got to accentuate the positive/Eliminate the negative."
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