From a billionaire publisher to a truck-stop magnate, many have traded the executive suite for political office.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presents the Fiscal Year 2013 preliminary budget in New York February 2. (Mary Altaffer/REUTERS)
The billionaire founder of a global media firm, Bloomberg (I) is in his third term as mayor of New York. He’s weighed runs for president.
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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.
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When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.
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