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During the week, Tim Mahoney, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 16th congressional district, is a millionaire investment banker in Boca Raton, Fla. On the weekends he plays cattle rancher at his spread west of Lake Okeechobee. Given that just a week ago Mahoney trailed six-term Republican incumbent Mark Foley by double digits in the polls, it seemed politics was destined to be just another of his expensive hobbies. But since Foley dropped out of the race last Friday - felled by the growing scandal over inappropriate e-mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have...
Sources: U.S. State Department; Reuters; National Association of Realtors; Coldwell Banker; Congressional Quarterly...
Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western...
...Health—a decision he attributed to Summers’ resignation. At least three other substantial gifts were cancelled, including $100 million from publisher and real-estate tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, $100 million from former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith ’46, and $75 million from banker David Rockefeller ’36, The Wall Street Journal reported in July...
...central banker and I choose to invest my reserves more aggressively and I am successful...[most people] will never know what I did,” he said. But if those investments fail due to a weak market, central bankers face “substantial career risk...