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PRESCOTT SHELDON BUSH 1895-1972 An investment banker and the first Bush to win elective office, becoming a Senator from Connecticut. A stern man, he would tell his offspring to "call me Senator...
TIME: So let's start with your grandfather Prescott Bush. He was a patrician Connecticut banker and Senator, part of the old-line Yankee Wasp establishment...
...which he'd have been an obvious candidate if the link was strong enough to justify bombing a factory. And last year Washington quietly released his assets in U.S. financial institutions, which had been frozen following the raid. The Wall Street Journal characterized Idris as "a Westernized Saudi Arabian banker" with no known ties to Islamic extremists. Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and their acolytes certainly aren't generally in the habit of filing suit in Washington...
...Evan Bayh. He could even get weird with Warren Christopher. He'd be risking it with a woman, because this is still a country that elects men to its highest office. Would he drop a bomb like Jesse Ventura, thinking he could harness him? Maybe he'll convince natty banker Robert Rubin to live off his book deal for a few years...
...Guns N' Roses, she enjoys history and wants one day to teach. But even if she had a degree, she says, there aren't any jobs. Her once prosperous family lives in a crumbling, communist-era apartment on the edge of Belgrade, while her father, formerly a banker, peddles Nikes door to door. "I deserve better--we all deserve better," she says. She turns to show a welt on the back of her head. "Nothing in this country is going to change until people realize that they have to take personal risks...