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...those who have been wondering exactly what compassionate conservatism means, we've found an explanation better than anything George W. Bush has uttered. A wealthy Los Angeles businesswoman named Noel Irwin Hentschel can be called a compassionate conservative, although, like other Republicans, she's insulted by the implication that to be both things at once constitutes a genetic breakthrough...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on chads and other electoral alligators finally rolled in and Bush made his victory speech, Irwin Hentschel watched with her family in their gated French colonial mansion in the exclusive Bel Air section. Outside, a Rolls-Royce and a Jaguar were parked in the driveway. Irwin Hentschel was moved to tears and was perhaps more inspired than usual to say goodbye to her clan (which includes seven children) and board an SUV for a weekly nocturnal mission that sometimes means wearing a bulletproof vest. Her driver transported her across the universe--a 30-minute...
...spent part of my childhood in South Central L.A., which was a different place then," says Irwin Hentschel, 49, who began police ride-alongs three years ago to get the scoop on problems she can address through her Noel Foundation. The foundation exists because in 1988, Irwin Hentschel met Mother Teresa at a convention for successful young entrepreneurs and was thoroughly inspired. Irwin Hentschel and a partner had started a travel company in 1977, when she was 25. AmericanTours International, which operates U.S. tours for foreigners, now employs 300 and does $150 million a year in business. "[Mother Teresa] said...
...more likely to produce dimpled chads in the vote for President than for other offices, because that column gets clogged by getting the most use and therefore harder to punch out cleanly as the day goes on. Boies took special delight in his statistician, a Yale professor resembling Professor Irwin Corey, who pointed out that the undervote in counties that used punch cards was five times as high as that in counties that used other methods. But Boies has also shown uncharacteristic passion in the election battle. Alarmed that "a mob stormed the canvassing board" in Miami to stop...
KIDS LOVE: The Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin, which changes with the seasons. They flock to Vincent van Gogh's Irises and The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark by Jan Bruegel the Elder. Best of all, kids can view Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven by Jean-Etienne Liotard, then go to the Family Room, where there is a reproduction, complete with 18th century period costumes...