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More traffic meant more tolls, which to Moses meant more money for public improvements. He was the person I most enjoyed learning about while drawing March, and I've kept his example in my heart since," he wrote. Language in its Authority's bond contracts and multi-year Commissioner appointments made it largely impervious to pressure from mayors and governors. He slept on floors, wore overalls, shared the risks, took the blows, he dug in deeply.' He is survived by his wife, Dr. Janet Moses; two daughters, Maisha and Malaika; two sons, Omowale and Tabasuri; and seven grandchildren. Rest in Power," a tweet from the account read. He left the US to continue his mathematics teaching in East Africa. Around this time, Moses' political acumen began to fail him, as he unwisely picked several controversial political battles he could not possibly win. According to the rules of the organization, no one nation could host more than one fair in a decade. To all these details Mr. Nersesian has remained faithful, while filling in the blanks to suit his fictional purposes; in the authors account, a young Paul Moses becomes a guerrilla fighter during the Mexican Civil War and later lives in East Tremont in the Bronx as his brothers Cross Bronx Expressway bulldozes its way toward his apartment. Criticism[edit] Moses's critics claim that he preferred automobiles to people. We struggled to make ends meet, he told the Globe, but we also had a very strong family life.. Many other cities, like Newark, Chicago and St. Louis, also built massive, unattractive public housing projects. While he was attending Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, he became a Rhodes Scholar and was deeply influenced by the work of the French philosopher Albert Camus and his ideas about rationality and moral purity for social change. This allegation, however, has since been disputed by Bernward Joerges in his essay Do Politics Have Artefacts? "'When people asked what to do, he asked them what they thought. ARTHUR NERSESIAN, a 49-year-old playwright, poet and novelist whose wavy gray hair gives him the look of a 1960s English professor, rummaged through the black messenger bag lying next to him in a booth at the Moonstruck Diner in the East Village. I walked in and the secretary said, Can I help you? And I think I tried to convey to her that this was where I lived for the first 10 years of my life; this space here was where I was bathed in the sink.