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...Because what's a GOP convention without the Bushes? Tuesday marked at least 60 years of the family's attendance at these gatherings, going back to Philadelphia in 1948, when a Connecticut banker by the name of Prescott S. Bush attended as a delegate for the first time. They'll always be welcome - as long as they aren't the two-term incumbent in the family...
Which is all the more reason to communicate early and often--throw those bank statements on the table, and let everyone see. "In a certain sense, it's like a prenuptial agreement," says Louise Merriam, a real estate agent at Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman in Burlington...
...Munk, who built Barrick from nothing into the world's biggest gold-mining company, invested his own money to start the Montenegro project. But in recent months he has brought in an A list of fellow investors, including former banker Lord Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathan, French luxury-goods magnate Bernard Arnault and Russian mining billionaire Oleg Deripaska...
...Tbilisi, Georgians, who experienced near civil war between factions in the early 1990s, "want to remain united," says the banker Amaglobeli. "They all put the blame on Russia. A lot of people are not supporting the government, but they are united in one idea: that we have to fight for our freedom and independence...
...Goldman Sachs, the current cream of Wall Street firms (and also the place that prepared Robert Rubin for his successful 1990s tenure at Treasury). But the key to understanding Paulson's approach is that he spent the bulk of his career not as a manager but as an investment banker. What a good investment banker does is build relationships - chiefly with the CEOs of companies whose business he is courting, but also with anybody else who can help make deals happen...