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...toiled for Democratic candidates for years, and once he nearly took a job with Bill Clinton. In 1990 he helped Ann Richards become Texas Governor, and he regarded her successor with partisan suspicion. But McKinnon, 44, was won over after a dinner with Bush in 1997. He went to work producing the TV ads for the Governor's landslide re-election campaign in 1998, and is now running Bush's media campaign for President. McKinnon's party switch still appalls many Democratic friends. Paul Begala, a former Clinton adviser, attributes it to "a mid-life crisis." McKinnon prefers to call...
Kindergartners are definitely capable of reading and doing simple mathematics. Teaching them these subjects is not asking too much of them. It is merely encouraging them to work to their full ability instead of allowing their minds to stagnate until they have reached what the school system designates as the proper age at which one should learn to read. KATIE RASCHKO, AGE 17 Seattle...
DIED. ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, 87, artist and iconic Conde Nast editorial director who set the style and tone for Vogue and Vanity Fair--and inspired the industry to treat magazines as minor cultural jewels; in Miami. His Expressionist work appeared in the Whitney and Guggenheim museums...
...which can make small-company combinations harder to arrange than big buyouts. John Mavredakis, senior manager of the Houlihan Lokey investment bank, has helped arrange both types. "When we work with large corporations, everything is methodical and rational," he says. "With smaller companies, emotions come much more into play. Personalities play a major role. There is the need of the entrepreneur, his desire to make sure that his employees are being treated fairly and that he is giving them a good home...
...field. Davis, a.k.a. Walter Waldhauser Jr., spent most of the 1980s in prison for hiring a hit man to wipe out a friend's family in order to get a share of their life-insurance proceeds. But after being released on parole, Davis found a new line of insurance work: a largely unregulated offshoot of the business called viaticals...