- Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), … - Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington. - Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig (born Genevieve Guidroz in 1932 in Berwick, Louisiana) is an American weight loss guru who founded Jenny Craig, Inc. Raised in New Orleans, Genevieve Guidroz married Australian Sidney H. Craig. Although neither had formal training in nutrition or exercise, Mrs Craig developed a weight loss regimen that led to creating a weight-loss company in the mid-1980s with her husband. - Dennis B. Ross
Dennis Ross Ross is a distinguished fellow and counselor for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ross played the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was this country's point man on the peace process in both the Bush and Clinton administrations. - John Bradshaw
John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. His books are mainly works of popular psychology. - David O. McKay
David Oman McKay (September 8, 1873 - January 18, 1970) was the ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon), serving from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an Apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, he was a General Authority for nearly sixty-four years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history. - Philip D. Zelikow
Philip D. Zelikow , Executive Director [R] - Philip Zelikow is the executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9/11 Commission." .. After serving in government with the Navy, the State Department, and the National Security Council ... - Edwin Meese
Mr. Meese served as attorney general of the United States from 1985 to 1988, during which time he championed what he termed the "jurisprudence of original intent." Calling for fidelity to the intentions of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers, he opposed the judicial activism of the modern Supreme Court and helped bring about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal court judges pledged to the philosophy of judicial restraint. - Kathy Freston
Kathy Freston is a self-help author and personal growth and spirituality counselor. She is the author of "The One: Discovering the Secrets of Soul Mate Love" and "Expect a Miracle: Seven Spiritual Steps to Finding the Right Relationship." Her Transformational Meditation CDs offering guided meditationshave been featured in W, Self, and Mode. - Jack Lalanne
Jack LaLanne is an American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, lecturer, and motivational speaker. LaLanne has been referred to as "the godfather of fitness." LaLanne gained worldwide renown for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as his prodigious feats of strength. He has won numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger Award from the Association of Distinguished Americans, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. - Tim White
Tim White (born August 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American anthropologist. White majored in biology and anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph. D in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan. In 1974 White worked with Richard Leakey's team at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Richard Leakey was so impressed with White's work he recommended White to his mother, Mary Leakey, … - Raymond Moody
Raymond Moody (born June 30 1944) is a parapsychologist. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences, (a term which he coined in 1975). His best selling title is "Life After Life". Moody studied philosophy at the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A. (1966), a M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D (1969) in the subject. He also obtained a Ph.D in psychology from West Georgia College, … - Paul Clement
Paul Drew Clement (born June, 1966) is the current Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 14, 2005, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 8, 2005, and took the oath of office on June 13, 2005. Clement replaced Theodore Olson, who resigned as Solicitor General in July, 2004, and is now a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. - George Ross
George Ross (May 10, 1730-July 14, 1779), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. He was born in New Castle, Delaware and educated at home. He studied law at his brother John's law office, the common practice in those days, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. Initially a Tory, he served as Crown Prosecutor for twelve years and was elected to the provincial legislature in 1768. - Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles. - Rachel Paulose
Rachel Kunjummen Paulose (born March 12, 1973, Kerala, India), the current U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. She is the first Indian American woman, the youngest attorney, and the first woman in Minnesota to hold this post. - Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III (b. 1959 in Oceanside, California) is an American writer best known as the author of the novel "House of Sand and Fog", which was a National Book Award finalist in 1999 and was made into a movie in 2003. His other books include "Bluesman", a 1993 novel, and "The Cage Keeper and Other Stories" from 1989. Dubus's work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the 1985 National Magazine Award for Fiction. - Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work "A Natural History of the Senses." Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals. - Jerome Hauer
Jerome Hauer is the director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP) of the US since May 5, 2002. He was a former empolyee of Kroll Inc. which studied biological terrorism attacks. - Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 February 1743 - 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and science patron. He took part in Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and around 80 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, "Banksia". - Abraham Clark
Abraham Clark (February 15, 1725 - September 15, 1794) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from March 4, 1791, until his death in 1794. Abraham was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. - Sheri L. Dew
Sheri L. Dew is second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency. She is vice president of publishing at Deseret Book and a well known author and biographer. ... about sports and girls and motorcycles. But then I came to the entry he had made the day I arrived home unexpectedly from BYU: "Sheri came home from BYU today. I'm so glad she's home. But she doesn't seem very happy. - John Rowan
John Rowan is an author, counselor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who practices Primal integration in England. He has worked with Ken Wilber in exploring Transpersonal psychology. - Manis Friedman
Rabbi Manis Friedman (born 1946) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid. He is a noted biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946 Friedman immigrated with his family to the United States in 1950. He received his rabbinic ordination at the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969.<br /> A noted biblical scholar, author, … - Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan began her magazine-writing career, in 2001, with a series of extended book reviews about the conflicts at the very heart of modern life-specifically, modern domestic life as it is lived by professional-class women. Flanagan has quickly established herself as a highly entertaining social critic unafraid to take on self-indulgence and political correctness, and her reviews provide penetrating and witheringly funny observations about the sexes and their discontents. - George Meade
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. - Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, born May 20, 1956, a Russian essayist, literary translator, and fiction writer. He was born in Tbilisi into a Georgian family, and since 1958 has lived in Moscow. "Akunin" (悪人) is a Japanese word that translates loosely to "villain". In his novel "Diamond Chariot", the author defines an "akunin" further as one who creates his own rules. The pseudonym "B. - Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito (born Shelley Wellons Moore on November 26 1953) is an American politician. She has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Second Congressional District of West Virginia (map). The district stretches from the Ohio River in the west to the Eastern Panhandle, which borders with Virginia and Maryland. She is the only Republican in the West Virginia Congressional delegation. - Mark Elliot
Mark Elliot (born ca. 1953 is the professional name of Nils Johanson, a late night talk radio host on radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and an addictions counselor in private practice. From 2003 to February 2007 he hosted the general interest talk show "The Nightside", as of 2005 the highest-rated late night radio show in Canada. Since February 2007 he hosts "People Helping People", … - Stewart Udall
Stewart was born in St. Johns in far eastern Arizona near the New Mexico line. He grew up as a farm boy, working the horse-drawn plow and cleaning out the irrigation ditch. He'll always have the southwestern high desert country in his blood. When you grow up in a small farming town and you raise your own food, Stewart has said, you are close to the ground, close to the animals: "I grew up in the Colorado plateau and I will love it always." - Harville Hendrix
Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. Hendrix is the author of "Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples" and "Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide". - Ellen Evert Hopman
Ellen Evert Hopman, M.Ed., was born in Salzburg, Austria. She is an herbalist, lay homeopath, and counselor who lives and works in Western Massachusetts. She held the position of vice president of the Henge of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years, and is a professional member of the American Herbalist's Guild. She is the author of several books and audio tapes on Paganism and Druidry. She is Professor of Wortcunning at the Grey School of Wizardry, … - Tony Plana
Tony Plana (born April 19, 1954) is a Cuban-American actor. - Selena Fox
Selena Fox (born October 1949) is a Wiccan priestess, journalist, political activist, counselor, psychotherapist, author, educator and lecturer in the fields of Neo-Paganism, magic, Wicca, multi-culturalism and comparative religion. - Keni Thomas
Keni Thomas is a southern rock and country music singer from Georgia, United States. Born Kenneth M. Thomas, he graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism. He enlisted in the United States Army after graduating from college. - J. Richardson Dilworth
J. Richardson Dilworth (? - 1997) was a leading businessman and academic. He was born in Long Island, New York and graduated from Yale University in 1938, and the Yale Law school in 1942. He was a partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1952 to 1958. - Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly 40 years. - Regina Peruggi
Regina S. Peruggi (born c. 1947) is an American educator, who is the President of Kingsborough Community College, the first woman to hold that position in the college’s 40-year history. She is also known as the first wife of Rudy Giuliani, who would subsequently become Mayor of New York and a U.S. presidential candidate. Peruggi grew up in a middle class family in The Bronx in New York City. She attended Roman Catholic parochial schools. - Joey Greco
Joey Greco or Joel Greco is an American television host best known for hosting the reality TV show "Cheaters". Greco was born in 1960, raised in New York, and educated at Evangel University, a private liberal arts college in Springfield, Missouri, receiving a B.A. in Psychology, before receiving a Master's Degree in Counseling at a college in Louisiana. He began his working career as a counselor, later becoming a fitness trainer, … - Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde , a MacArthur fellow, is a writer, editor, translator, and poet. His numerous books include "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, "an investigation into art and the economies of gift exchange, and "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art," which explores the "trickster" character who appears in the traditions and myths of many cultures. Recently, he edited "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau ," and is currently researching "the cultural commons."
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