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...life. At least the prisoner stays in one place with a guard outside. We are always moving, and only God is watching." ABDUL WAHED HASHIM, Iraqi businessman, after months of sleeping in different houses and constantly changing cars to avoid being kidnapped, on the lack of security in Iraq...
Many of the donors inside the event expressed similarly strong support for Kerry and uneasiness about Bush administration policies. Marshall Bradstreet, a local businessman, said this was the first time he had donated to a political campaign and that he felt a strong urge...
...January 2002, Giuliani had already reinvented himself as a businessman. The experiment has been extremely lucrative. Giuliani Partners, the consulting and investment firm that he started by transplanting key members of his administration into a dark-wood-paneled office on Times Square, is bringing in just over $100 million a year in revenue, according to a source close to the company. That would mean the firm is collecting over $2 million per employee, which is phenomenal. (By comparison, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, takes in roughly $1.2 million per employee.) Companies like Nextel, Purdue Pharma and the nuclear...
...nation's first M.B.A. President, Bush took to the White House a businessman's case-study training rather than a lawyer's conceptual toolbox. But if a concept will solve a problem, he can embrace it with a convert's passion. Once he was convinced that phonics worked, he put the reading theory at the center of his Texas education plan. A similar thing happened on the way to war. In that case the concept was the neoconservatives' largely academic belief in the transforming power of freedom in the Middle East. The neocons' vision to remake the world...
...January 2002, Giuliani had already reinvented himself as a businessman. The experiment has been extremely lucrative. Giuliani Partners, the consulting and investment firm that he started by transplanting key members of his administration into a dark-wood-paneled office on Times Square, is bringing in just over $100 million a year in revenue, according to a source close to the company. That would mean the firm is collecting over $2 million per employee, which is phenomenal. (By comparison, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, takes in roughly $1.2 million per employee.) Companies like Nextel, Purdue Pharma and the nuclear...