We granted them anonymity so they needn't worry about offending people they left off. This, too, is an inexact approach. The final list includes the most commonly mentioned names. The only unanimous choice was Mayor John DeStefano. Terrell and Yale Vice President Bruce Alexander were near-unanimous choices.
Men top the list, more than ever.
Men who think more modestly than in the past. Everyone agreed that no single precise list exists, that power has in one sense grown more diffuse, in another sense become ever-more concentrated in the domineering mitts of the mayor. They brought me up to the Chamber of Commerce. And they were threatening me. I told them they had to threaten me on the corner of Shelton and Thompson.