What a difference a few years make

"'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." -John Huston as Noah Cross in "Chinatown," 1974

Former Miami mayor Maurice Ferre, who turns 76 on June 23, is, apparently - in the eyes of some at the Miami Herald - old enough to be considered "respectable" again. It wasn't always that way.

Did you catch the former mayor's