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...worked for Gore in the 1980s and became the assistant Energy Department secretary in charge of its multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste cleanup program. From where he stood between Haney and Grumbly, Knight came up with a fruitful arrangement: he began lobbying the Gore appointee on behalf of the businessman he was soliciting for Gore campaign cash...
...always acutely aware of his own worth," says Gates, who is the chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. "He is the only person of this generation, no, he is the only person period, who has been able to be a great musician and a great businessman...
...Tung labored seven days a week to build a consensus among creditors to restructure the tangle of public and private companies. When he needed a large infusion of new capital, he turned to the Taipei government. The answer was no. Tung then approached mainland Chinese, and a local businessman with ties to Beijing kicked in the money. Only this year did Tung admit that the businessman's bailout funds came from the state-owned Bank of China...
...summer was the only real time I spent with my father. The rest of the year he was occupied with his New York City department store, Avedon's Fifth Avenue. Before my father became a businessman, though, he was a teacher. In the summer of 1931, at the beach, he opened my eyes to the wonder of photography...
...voice of a prospective nominee: "I make six figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...