FLASHPOINT for Aug 03, 2007

Friday, Aug. 3, 2007 | 7:30 a.m.

Oscar Goodman is like Sisyphus. Or so he said Thursday. Of course the mayor was not referring to his fellow promoter of commerce's avarice and deceit. He was making the more well-known reference to the mythic Greek rolling the boulder up the hill - downtown, in this case - and then having it roll back over him. The only way to stop that boulder from crushing Goodman, he said, is to always be supportive of his grand, certainly un-Sisyphean schemes: "I'm not going to allow people around me to bring their bad karma I don't have any time for any kind of negativity I have a very short-fuse temper and I am going to use it the next couple of years." That sounds like a threat. So, everyone: Only good karma. Got it?

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