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That's where Bush the politician seems transformed. The millionaire real estate mogul who once described himself as a "head-banging conservative" is suddenly taking his campaign into places where few Florida Republicans have gone before--black churches and schools, Hispanic neighborhoods, condo units full of elderly, staunchly Democratic Jews, and rural counties on the Georgia border, where Republicans are still scarce. In the last go-around, his speeches were about building prisons and boot camps, making abortion illegal, downsizing government and putting welfare moms back to work. This time he talks about promoting economic growth in poor neighborhoods, ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinder, Gentler--And In The Lead | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...Nobel Prize-winning doctor, a noted Irish poet, a media mogul, a former president of Ireland and five professors from Harvard and Yale are this year's nine honorary degree recipients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Will Bestow Nine Honorary Degrees | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Forbes magazine attributed Decherd's success to this. In a profile of the rising media mogul earlier this year, they found that Belo's revenues rise when local viewer loyalty rises. This is because networks take a 75 percent cut on advertisement revenues for national programming while ad money from local news goes directly to Belo...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Media Mogul Decherd Places Principles Above Profits | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

Founded by aircraft mogul Howard Hughes in1954, the HHMI today employs more than 320scientific investigators--including several NobelPrize winners and 60 members of the NationalAcademy of Sciences--at 72 institutions across theUnited States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knowles Named to Hughes Board | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

DIED. ALEX RITCHIE, 53, intrepid British balloonist whose airborne acrobatics--and buoyancy of spirit--last year averted mogul Richard Branson's balloon team's death by deflation; from injuries suffered during a parachute jump; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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