In the early 1990s Gordon dropped out of college in Toronto to model for clothing catalogs, loving the pay but hating the process.

FORBES: Adopting a Crusade

However, when, just a few days later, Gordon Brown set out the (questionable) arguments that underpin his belief that there is no model for delivering health care with equity and efficiency that is superior to the National Health Service, he was heard with something close to awe.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Led by Steve Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur who started Court TV, and Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher, Journalism Online is building an iTunes-like model for micropayments of media content.

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