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...jobs. Among the possibilities he'd been mulling: President of the United States, Secretary-General of the United Nations and--his top choice--mayor of New York City, and never mind that he had no experience in government. Giuliani could see he was serious about the third idea. A lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg intended to switch parties in order to have a clear shot at the Republican nomination. Giuliani, who has known Bloomberg for years, understood he had the resources to run and figured he'd be a moderate. He promised his support, the mayor told TIME, but he didn...
Princeton had been among the founding members of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, which now comprises only Stanford, Oxford and Yale. The group’s mission was to combine the academic resources of the four universities to provide online courses in the arts and sciences to their 500,000 collective alumni...
...Democrat Mark Green, the city?s public advocate and a lifelong politico, is currently in a statistical dead heat with newly-minted Republican Mike Bloomberg, a liberal-minded media mogul who switched parties when he realized he?d be quickly overshadowed in a crowded Democratic field. Both men have positions on many issues (education, gay rights, the environment) that are virtually indistinguishable. At least their campaign styles are different: While Bloomberg seeks to capitalize on his outsider status ("A leader, not a politician," blare his campaign ads), Green embraces his years as a local politician...
Joti Rockwell and Hubbard, two self-described “guys with acoustic guitars and bad hair,” could easily be written off as just another duo who picked up their guitars in college to woo girls—except that they’re not. Lifelong friends, the 20-somethings have been writing music and performing since they were six, graduating in 1997 from Princeton (Hubbard) and Haverford (Rockwell). Their stood-the-test-of-time friendship was apparent in their on-stage banter during the Passim show...
...Elite Gakushuin University. A scion of the family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...