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　　The sometimes tense relationship between presidents and New York City mayors was seemingly set 30 years ago with the famous Daily News headline following President Gerald R．Ford's decision not to help the city out from a financial crisis．(“Ford to City：Drop Dead,” it read．)

　　But yesterday provided something of a role of the opposite：President Bush came to promote strong national economic data and to do it in the glow of a New York City economy that he said was “booming with a bond rating(债券评级)at an all-time high, and unemployment near an all-time low．”

　　The moment highlighted the unique relationship Mr．Bush has with New York City, to which he has been linked since the 2001 terrorist attacks, even though he is unpopular with many voters here．

　　And as he spoke at the Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street for an event held by the Association for a Better New York, he addressed an audience that included not only business leaders but also three New York City mayors-one of them a Republican, two of them Democrats．

　　There was Mayor Michael R．Bloomberg, a late-blooming Republican, who kept his distance from the president throughout the 2005 mayoral campaign in case the president's low poll(选举投票)ratings rub off on him．

　　Mr．Bloomberg seemed to receive slightly louder applause than Mr．Bush did yesterday, though, to be fair, both were warmly received and many of Mr．Bloomberg's own officials were in the audience．

　　But Mr．Bush did not seem to take offense either way．

　　“Mr．Mayor, thanks for being here, I appreciate your coming,” Mr．Bush told Mr．Bloomberg．“You're doing what people want you to do, and that is to lead this city．”

　　Then there was former Mayor David N．Dinkins, the liberal Democrat．“Mr．Mayor-David Dinkins, thank you for being here,” Mr．Bush said from the lectern．“Proud you're here．”

　　His warmest words were for Mayor Edward I．Koch, the Democrat who crossed party lines to endorse Mr．Bush in 2004．

　　“And it's good to see my buddy(密友), Mayor Ed Koch,” Mr．Bush said．“Mr．Mayor, thank you for coming．”

　　One former mayor who was not there：Rudolph W．Giuliani, the man at or near the top of many polls of possible Republican presidential contenders(竞争者), who, according to an aide, was at tending a fund-raiser out of town．

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　　As a preteen in New York, Whitney Johnson volunteered at soup kitchens and delivered clothes to the homeless．While at college, she started an English-language tutoring program for immigrant children．No one was surprised, then, when she chose to volunteer in an orphanage in Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's poorest areas, during her junior year abroad．

　　At the orphanage, Johnson discovered most of the children infected with HIV at birth, many abandoned by parents too sick to care for them, or neglected by surviving relatives．Few were receiving the care needed to stay healthy．Many died．When she left, all she wanted to do was go back and change what she had seen．

　　After graduation, Johnson began a fund-raising effort that eventually collected enough money to found UBA, a nonprofit organization intended to provide services for HIV-positive(阳性的)kids aged 4 to 18 in Khayelitsha．Now UBA is housed in a church big enough for offices and the children．The staff includes counselors(咨询师), a social worker, a nurse, a cook, and a handful of volunteers, ensuring that each child has access to proper care, a free healthy meal, and emotional support．Once a week, she makes sure the children receive age-appropriate lessons about AIDS．The social worker sees to it that the kids are enrolled(注册)in school and have safe living conditions－especially those without parents．

　　Johnson plans to soon relocate UBA to an even larger location with more medical staff and a field“so the kids can run around and just feel like kids．" She's also working with the South African Department of Health so that the new center can distribute drugs and give blood tests．

　　"Many people think that HIV means death, but it doesn't," Johnson says．"There's so much that can be done．" In the five years since the center opened, not one of the 200 kids in the program has died．“It's so emotional to see the strong, independent people they become．" One teenage girl who had received help at UBA even announced that she wanted to become a nurse．

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