Yoni Ben-Meshulam's R We the People is a package for the R statistics environment that allows users to generate word clouds and visualize the issues that petitions are created about over time.

WHITEHOUSE: Looking Back at the White House Hackathon

He dealth with some nasty characters, like Ivan Boesky and Victor Posner and Meshulam Riklis, but from his trading desk in Beverly Hills he also raised billions of dollars for Turner Broadcasting, MCI, Time Warner, Medco, McCaw Cellular and Rupert Murdoch's enterprises.

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