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Last fall, Joshua D. Liston '95 seemed heir apparent to the Undergraduate Council presidency...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...
...Republican into the Cabinet. A senior official approached former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman two weeks ago about replacing Lloyd Bentsen as Treasury Secretary. Rudman declined the tentative offer, however, and Clinton turned to Robert Rubin, the director of the National Economic Council, who had been Bentsen's presumptive heir for months. Rubin isn't expected to change course at Treasury, but his ability to broker compromises on bitter policy fights will be missed at the White House...
...outlook, in prescription and also in his penchant for shaving the truth by the clever manipulation of easily grasped images, Newt Gingrich is Reagan's true heir. To appreciate Newt's World, consider just a few of the bombs the new House Speaker lobbed as he issue-surfed through his Dec. 4 appearance on NBC's Meet the Press...
...founding giant -- visionary, ruthless perhaps -- establishes the fortune. His sons try to consolidate it. As the generations follow one another, the founder's energy dissipates, like gases flung out from a star. Heirs proliferate. They squabble. Trust funds thin out. Distant cousins go for one another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks...