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...Both her political pedigree and her personal warmth and accessibility played well in an election where gender issues were never far from the surface. In the first round of voting on December 15 election, she garnered 45.96% of the vote, compared with the 25.41%, for conservative millionaire businessman Sebasti?n Pi?era Eche?ique, whom she defeated 53.49% to 46.50% in the January 15 runoff...
...have ventured to make the world a better place. The Gateses and Bono have taken the road less traveled but have done so with such passion, zeal and influence that they are sure to leave a mark. Gates, the richest man in the world, accused of being a ruthless businessman, has confounded his critics and become an excellent global campaigner. Bono has the rare ability to affect many, not only with his music but also with his deeds. Such people and the initiatives they have undertaken will have a profound effect on millions of lives. Mohit Salhotra Bombay...
...face facts: Gov. Romney is an ambitious man with a mixed record of political achievement who knows he is unlikely to win another statewide election which would scuttle his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Despite three years on Beacon Hill, the governor remains a shrewd businessman and remembers how to hedge his bets. The governor’s assertion that it is unnecessary to serve another term because his work is finished is an absurdity. There is an abundance of work yet to do, as his lieutenant governor will remind us when she declares her candidacy...
...ensure that DATA was divorced from the stigma of vanity, Bono refused to bankroll it. After coaxing $1 million grants out of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros and software businessman Ed Scott, DATA got real office space and hired lobbyists--Tom Sheridan, a Democrat who had been a star of the domestic AIDS lobby, and Scott Hatch, a former Tom DeLay aide who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee. DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World...
...said University President Lawrence H. Summers in a statement. “This program will enable us to recruit additional faculty of the highest caliber, adding to our strong team of professors who are focusing on this important area of scholarship.” The Saudi businessman and philanthropist, who is the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company in Riyadh, has donated $19 million to the Southeast Asia tsunami relief effort and, in an unrelated act, also plans to fund the construction of 10,000 housing units for poor Saudi Arabian families. According to a March 2005 issue of Forbes...