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...After 9/11, anytime Americans encountered a really hard problem, someone would nominate Rudy Giuliani to solve it. There were calls for him to take over WorldCom, the SEC, the state - even the country...
...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...
...office is decorated with framed magazine covers about Giuliani - including a larger-than-life reproduction of TIME's 2001 Person of the Year cover. At a staff meeting last week, Giuliani's new world appeared seamlessly woven into his old. His former fire chief, former emergency-management commissioner and longtime spokeswoman all sat at the table. One employee briefed him on a client, and another told him how well a summer camp for children of 9/11 victims had gone. At the end, someone handed him pictures to autograph for fans...
...roughly the same amount of work but not the same amount of pressure," Giuliani says. Still, he occasionally misses the adrenaline. "I remember the first couple of times I heard a siren [after leaving office]. I was getting ready to go, and I realized it wasn't my job anymore...
Meanwhile, Giuliani has been speaking across the globe for fees of $75,000 and up--sometimes way up. He has campaigned for Republicans in 35 states since leaving office, and he's a prime-time speaker at this week's Republican convention. Still, he is guarded about the idea of a Cabinet post in a new Bush White House. "It would be presumptuous to rule something out that no one has offered. But it's not something I'm seeking, not something I particularly want." It is hard to imagine, though, that America's mayor will be satisfied with being...