These did more to take bad guys off the streets than harassing squeegee men.

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In fact he's destitute, a squeegee merchant who eats out of Dumpsters and sleeps in the undergrowth.

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He has the two-sided variety, sponge on one side, squeegee on the other.

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And within three months, the squeegee bums were gone.

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Giuliani has always enjoyed playing the crime-fighting superhero, but he has, famously, been a cold and merciless crusader--a bane to squeegee pests, jaywalkers, homeless people, welfare moms, police-shooting victims and city-council Democrats.

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Throughout these sales, collectors gravitated to artists with global fan bases and easy-to-recognize styles like Richter, the German painter best known for creating wildly colorful abstracts by scraping an oversize squeegee across his canvases.

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Giuliani had fought with teachers and with Yasir Arafat, with the Brooklyn Museum and with Fidel Castro, with squeegee men, tennis fans, street venders, taxi-drivers, his own police chief, and, of course, his wife.

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He has done little in office to rid himself of the authoritarian label he attracted in opposition by denouncing winos and squeegee-merchants, and competing with the widely loathed Michael Howard to be the champion of law and order.

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Squeegee bums on every major corner.

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His reputation was forged in the refiner's fire of Sept. 11, which burned away the dross of what had been a successful but contentious two terms as New York City's mayor, a guy who reduced crime, yet picked fights with squeegee men and jaywalkers.

FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.