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Mentioned on GoyFire #17:

Like other Jewish CEOs, Time Warner's Mr. Levin began as an outsider, subject to the slights and barriers of discrimination. In the 1940s, his father, a successful grocer, tried to move his family to a better neighborhood near Philadelphia's Main Line. They were turned away from buying a house because of their religion, he has told interviewers.

Politically, Mr. Levin is more liberal than Mr. Golub. He grew up in a Reform Jewish home, where religion was mixed with a strong bent toward social justice; he then attended Haverford College, a college founded by Quakers near Philadelphia. Mr. Levin's son Jonathan, before his murder last year, taught poor black children at a high school in the Bronx; another son is studying to be a rabbi. Under pressure to identify a No. 2, Mr. Levin in 1994 named Mr. Parsons, a prominent New York lawyer and bank president who was on the Time Warner board.

"I think Jerry gets an enormous amount of satisfaction from having Dick Parsons there," says a friend who has known Mr. Levin for 20 years. "He likes telling the rest of the organization, 'You learn to relate to him. This is the new reality.' These guys believe the country can be different and they like being the people who make it different."

Many of the black executives working with Jews share traits, too. Like Mr. Chenault, they often grew up in homes with more social status than their mentors. Mr. Johnson, the lawyer, his father was an architect. The blacks also often attended school with Jews.

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