It is happy to see that Rudy Giuliani had better days when he did good and he was respected for it. How the mighty have fallen. > About an hour later, Mr. Giul

It is happy to see that Rudy Giuliani had better days when he did good and he was respected for it. How the mighty have fallen. > About an hour later, Mr. Giuliani was at Fresh Kills himself, standing amid garbage hills 200 feet tall, alongside Staten Island’s borough president, Guy Molinari, and Gov. George E. Pataki. These three Republicans had worked together to close the dump that Mr. Molinari’s father first protested when it opened in 1948, a time when Fresh Kills was a saltwater marsh where kids swam. After 1948, it became an ecological nightmare and a political hot potato. A banner behind the politicians read, “A Promise Made, a Promise Kept.”