From Tracie Mauriello
8 p.m.
It's the question world leaders and foreign press alike have been asking
all week: How did Pittsburgh transform itself from an old steel town to a
21st-century metropolis?
City and county officials are eager to give their version of how the
city picked itself by its boot straps, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper, a self-proclaimed hockey historian, said he and Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev know where the credit belongs.
"Everyone has been talking about the great resurgence of Pittsburgh in the
last generation, and one of the great symbols of this is the Pittsburgh
Penguins," Mr. Harper said, noting the teams star players are Canadian Sidney
Crosby and Russian Evgeni Malkin.
"We're trying to tell [President] Obama that really deep down, the rebirth
and revitalization of Pittsburgh is really due to Canadians and Russians," he
quipped.
Posted
Sep 26 2009, 01:08 AM
by
Annie Tubbs