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...what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich folks about the need to pay their taxes. Yet there has been silence from that corner. Maybe Peterson has found a better use for his billions than securing his reputation for vision and honesty. What that could...
...must use the Jr. when discussing the 31-year chairman of NASCAR, who died June 4 at 74; it's necessary in a way that it isn't with, say, Martin Luther King, Sammy Davis or Dinosaur. This is because there was a Bill France Sr.--was there ever. Big Bill grew up poor in Washington and had less than $100 to his name when he moved his family south during the Depression, seeking work. He found it in a gas station in Daytona, Fla., a town that loved gas. Soon France was helping organize stock-car races...
Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the midwest for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father—Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., also a leading American historian—joined the faculty at Harvard...
Take the words of a young Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. The American poet and essayist arrived at Harvard in 1825 and was instantly dismayed at the quality of Cambridge women...
John Dingell Sr. (born Dzieglewicz) first won the Dearborn seat in 1932 and held it for more than two decades before his son took over. Together, the Dingell dynasty covers nearly a third of the nation's history. "He was a skinny little shrimp," Dingell said of his dad. "Never drew a decent breath of air. Supposed to have died of tuberculosis in 1914. When the doctor told him that he had six months to live, Pop looked at him and said, 'Doc, I'll piss on your grave.' And Dr. Conway, whom Dad loved, died in '35. Pop died...