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...Given the pace at which the leading candidates in the two parties are raising vast sums of money, however, half a billion might not cut it. Of course, Bloomberg, the 65-year-old founder of Bloomberg L.P., has plenty more cash if he needs it. He spent a combined $160 million of his own money to win the mayor's job in 2001 and re-election 2005. But he's a pragmatic man. He may have billions to spare, but he didn't get that rich by pursuing fantasies that had no chance of panning...
...time when even well-heeled shops like Roush Racing are looking to outside investment capital to fund this very expensive sport, DEI just lost its biggest asset. No other driver, regardless of his success, could ever be as important to DEI as was the son and namesake of its founder. His value to the company could easily be worth $100 million or more...
With more pages, but fewer copies, Freeze Magazine launched its second issue at a reception last night at the Harvard College Women’s Center. The previous issue of the magazine, which founder and editor-in-chief Thea L. Sebastian ’08 called a “slightly more academic collegiate oriented version of Cosmopolitan or Seventeen,” came out in December 2005 amidst questions over its financial sustainability. This year, the magazine printed only 200 copies—3300 fewer copies than last year’s pioneer issue—with grant money...
...doubt he was ever as committedly pro-choice as those comments might have made him seem. More likely, this school of thought argues, Romney figured abortion restrictions were not apt to come to the Governor's desk in a state as liberal as Massachusetts. Says longtime friend Joel Peterson, founder of a Salt Lake City equity firm: "He knew that they would never come up for a vote, so he took it off the table. Does that sound politically expedient? Maybe...
...remains to be seen, though, how Romney's transformation will wash with conservative voters. "He does not appear to be credible in his deathbed conversionsb - pro-life, anti-homosexual agenda and so on," says Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, the intellectual and religious bulwarks of what was once known as the New Right. "People simply do not believe...