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Fisherfolk are a passionate lot, and Jacobs is one of them. The son of a Minneapolis junkman, Jacobs learned to spot value early in life, and by the 1980s he was plying that trade on Wall Street as a corporate raider, even making a run at Walt Disney. In 1992...
The White House, anxious to head off an outside investigation like the 9/11 commission, is adding staff for its own internal probe, led by Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, and plans to issue a "Lessons Learned" report in coming months. Democrats could get handed more than the whitewash many...
Want to know how Carl Icahn thinks? Icahn will tell you a story. He was at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas a few months ago and played poker with professional gamblers. In a $40,000 game, he wound up as one of two players left in a hand of...
Point was the brainchild of Bruce Lindstrom, 60, who in 1976 helped Sol Price launch the warehouse retail industry with the first Price Club, in San Diego. Lindstrom had grown up in an evangelical family in Riverside, Calif., and says when his parents and two brothers learned he was gay...
Even those point scholars with the darkest stories of adversity, like Emory's Bryan Olsen, seem more buoyant than Point lets on. I heard Olsen speak to Point donors twice, once in New York City and again in Michigan. Both times he said that after his Mormon family learned he...