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"You know, I don't really care about politics right now," Giuliani said last week, and no one could blame him for that. But with its nominating convention just two weeks away, the state G.O.P. cares a great deal about politics. Republican leaders from Pataki on down were publicly supporting...
Betsy McCaughey Ross, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York, is a fighter. When Republican Governor George Pataki dumped her as his second-term running mate in 1997, she switched parties and made a bid to unseat him. Today she is fighting another former partner, millionaire financier Wilbur Ross, whom...
Today more than a dozen U.S. companies run some 250 for-profit public schools, with an enrollment of 120,000 students--there were no such classrooms a decade ago--and venture capitalists from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are eagerly pumping funds into educational start-ups. "We originally set out...
Kenny, who studied management and mathematics at Cambridge University, knows Internet start-ups intimately. His Taiwanese-American wife is co-founder and CEO of DotLove.com whose website dispenses sex and love-life advice to lovelorn Chinese. Kenny co-founded his own company last September with Cheng, 29, a well-connected...
The damage to the auctioneers' reputation could be equally severe. Their woes fall at a time when they seemed to be growing ever richer and more powerful. The art market had rebounded; sales were up. Both firms had invested in glossy and expensive new Manhattan headquarters. Sotheby's fortunes, particularly...