Also blissfully ignored, he wrote, were the perils of relying on mathematical models devised without worst-case situations in mind.
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH The worst thing about Francis Ford Coppola's movie is that it isn't outrageous enough to become camp.
Is it possible to be a nation without the worst of nationalism?
We're getting the best of the culture, without the worst of the culture.
"This is the best of Rudy Giuliani without the worst," he said of the candidate.
Alan G. Hevesi, the city comptroller, said yesterday that if he were elected mayor he would offer New Yorkers "the best of Rudy Giuliani without the worst".
It's funny, but he's turned himself into precisely what the candidates who want to succeed him say they promise to be: the best of Giuliani without the worst.
The second is that, even if the country gets through the elections without the worst happening, a new government will find its right to rule contested by opponents charging it with fraud.
It was the best of Europe without the worst of Europe -- the hassle, the crush, the sinking feeling of watching something grand and authentic turned into a gaudy, unruly, costly theme park.
A10 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Hopesi Hopes to Preserve Parts of Giuliani Legacy Alan G. Hevesi, the city comptroller and a Democrat, said in an interview that if he were elected mayor he would offer "the best of Rudy Giuliani without the worst".
"I intend, as mayor, to offer what's the best of Rudy Giuliani without the worst," Alan G. Hevesi, the city comptroller, said on Friday, in a remark that any of the six candidates could have made.
