81.   She led the push for a commission to study whether the mayor should have more power.

82.   So the mayor has Mrs. Gresser, whom he helped depose Tuesday, to thank.

83.   So, apparently, has the mayor.

84.   Some other mayors have had a less hands-on approach.

85.   Someone said the mayor had his mother in the kitchen cooking the pasta and dishing it up.

86.   So the incoming mayor will have to deal with the control board for at least two more years, assuming the budget remains balanced.

87.   Some even argue that the mayor should have more control.

88.   Still, even if the mayor is having a teensy-weensy identity crisis, he should never have sided with ignorance or succumbed to P.C. poisoning.

89.   Still, if the next few months really go wrong, the mayor has a way out.

90.   Subsequent mayors had the same worry, and Savas took his ideas elsewhere.