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Alberto
"Al" Gonzales, the White house counsel is real "rag to riches"
success story.
Born in 1956 to Mexican parents who met in fields
where they both worked as migrant workers, he was one of eight
children.
After completing high school, Al Gonzales joined U.S.
Air Force. Stationed in Yukon, Alaska, his superiors encouraged him
to apply to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
 In 1975 Al Gonzales was accepted to the academy, and after
spending two years there, he transferred to Rice University in
Houston, Texas. It is there that he began to studying law and later
earned a law degree from Harvard University.His law degree in hand, Al Gonzales started work at the law firm
Vinson & Elkins in Texas. The bright young attorney soon caught the
eye of George W. Bush, who appointed Al Gonzales time and again to
high-profile jobs, including Taxes Supreme Court justice.  George
Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. He
survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary
in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of
Economics in 1952. While still in school he became influenced by the
work of the philosopher Karl Popper, which later served as a basis
for his various activities. In 1956 Mr. Soros moved to the United
States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an
international investment fund he founded and managed. Today he is
President and Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a private
investment management firm that serves as principal advisor to the
Quantum Group of Funds, a series of international investment
vehicles. Today he is Chairman of the Open Society Institute and the founder
of a network of philanthropic organizations that are active in more
than 50 countries. (Complete article in Vol. 5 Issue 2, April 2002. Click
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