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When Rudy Giuliani was inaugurated as New York's mayor in 1994, his son Andrew was a cheerful, chubby seven-year-old whose distracting antics on the stage upstaged his indulgent father on his big day.


When Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City, Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election.  was inaugurated as New York's mayor in 1994, his son Andrew was a cheerful, chubby chub·by  
adj. chub·bi·er, chub·bi·est
Rounded and plump. See Synonyms at fat.



[Probably from chub (from the plumpness of the fish).
 seven-year-old whose distracting antics on the stage upstaged his indulgent father on his big day. Now a 21-year-old college student, Andrew was again in the spotlight when he explained that he is estranged es·trange  
tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es
1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
 from his father owing to owing to
prep.
Because of; on account of: I couldn't attend, owing to illness.

owing to prepdebido a, por causa de 
 his parents 'bitter divorce. He said he and his father haven't been speaking "for a decent amount of time," and noted, "There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife." Rudy Giuliani wed his third wife in 2003, after an open courtship while still married, and the previously attentive father missed his son's high-school graduation two years later. Giuliani rightly noted that "these problems with blended families are challenges." And it's not uncommon for children to take sides in an angry dispute--"I got my values from my mother," Andrew pointedly declared. But Rudy Giuliani's very public, very messy personal life is uncommon in a presidential candidate, and that hyperactive hy·per·ac·tive
adj.
1. Highly or excessively active, as a gland.

2. Having behavior characterized by constant overactivity.

3. Afflicted with attention deficit disorder.
 little boy from happier times now adds to the baggage his father carries on the campaign trail.
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Date:Apr 2, 2007
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