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...quarter of a billion dollars at least. I decided to pick [my characters] because they all brought something to the table: Barry Diller, media; Ted Turner, media; George Soros, the Open Society Institute and institution-building; Peter Lewis, insurance; Joe Jamail and Bill Gates Sr. on access to justice. They all brought something...
...family was gathered in Hyannis Port, Mass., when two priests appeared at the door. Mother Rose was consumed by grief; Joe Sr. - a former ambassador to England - made all the funeral arrangements. "There is something about the firstborn that sets him a little apart," he wrote to one friend. "He represents our youth, its joys and problems." Younger brother Jack assembled a book of reminiscences, As We Remember Joe. The death was public, but in the pre-TV era, the mourning was blessedly private, as was the mourning for daughter Kathleen in a plane crash in France...
...poll, he enjoys an 80% approval rating. More important, a strong opponent has yet to enter next year's mayoral election. Booker's victory looks like a foregone conclusion. "For the first time in my life, Newark is looked at more positively because of its mayor," says Steve Adubato Sr., a longtime local power broker, and former Booker foe, who runs a nonprofit in the city. "Newark is no longer a big joke." (Read "No Charisma? Don't Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader...
...story of a wealthy family” (the dysfunctional Bluths) “who lost everything and the one son” (Michael) “who had no choice but to keep them all”—his parents (George Sr. and Lucille), son (George Michael), siblings (Gob, Linsday, and Buster), brother-in-law (Tobias), and niece (Maebe)—“together...
...spending her days oblivious to complication—going shopping and making hot ham water. But I don’t so much have the clothes or the hair to pull that off. And being married to Tobias could get a little awkies. Or maybe a Lucille or George Sr., who can simply will (or hire a one-armed man to help coerce) what they want done. Seems to work out fairly well for them, but I guess I’m still a little young to be quite that bitter. There’s always the option of pulling...