Hung Pataki Many Inches Bigger Than Previous Governors
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The Times has a fun little riff on how three-term governor George Pataki's official portrait, just recently unveiled in Albany, is oddly larger than that of any predecessor except New York's original governor, George Clinton, who was elected in 1777. [City Room/NYT]

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