Dan Kennedy is a master of teaching diverse businesspeople to become rainmakers through more effective marketing.

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Mr David has some nice things to say about Dan Doctoroff, a former deputy mayor to Mr Bloomberg, who now looks after his master's business empire.

ECONOMIST: A city in need of fearless leadership

A. agent, River Phoenix as an ethereal computer-age juvenile delinquent, Dan Aykroyd as an ex-con gadget freak, and David Strathairn as a blind master of sound tracing.

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