Larry Moulter

Now president of Bob Woolf Associates, a sports and entertainment talent agency, Moulter was the driving force behind the construction of the FleetCenter in his previous position, as president of the New Boston Garden Corporation.

I guess if you were an astronaut, you'd look back on the earth and say, "It's one little dot."

Even 25 floors up above the city, you say, "Well, it looks the same. Why can't we all understand that we are all part of the same city?" There are no neighborhood boundaries when you look down. You see mountains. You see green. You can see the rolling hills. But you don't see the disabling parochial, tribal instincts that surround our neighborhoods.

I'd like to see us become more of a city.

I think we get there with a continued emphasis on the business community. They have a role not just to make money, but to contribute to this community. I think we get there by politicians understanding that they alone can't define the agendas.

And, most important, I think we get there because we begin to appreciate -- spiritual may be the wrong word, but a return to faith, if you will. That, perhaps, is the biggest thing we have ahead of us. How do we get back to some moral base, some value system that makes sense not just for us as individuals, but for us as a community?

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