Spin Cycle
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To the end, Koch was unavoidable for comment
All the books and profiles on Ed Koch -- fawning, critical, autobiographical, mythical, accurate -- are long since completed and published, leaving an unusually rich reserve today for the obituary writers. In the 22-plus years since he left the New York City mayor's office, he never went away, never gave up the spotlight, sticking with a City Hall reporter's characterization of him as "unavoidable...
