In 1987 William Conway and Daniel D'Aniello (former financial gurus at MCI Communications and Marriott Corp. respectively) teamed up with David Rubinstein (a lawyer and Carter administration official) to found the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in the District.

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In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, Jascha Heifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

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