Article: Colorado's 25 most powerful people; money isn't everything, but it helps.(Cover Story)

Power is measured subjectively and individually. Office holders have power because they make decisions that affect other people's lives. Ministers hold the power of the pulpit to influence behaviors. Wealthy people wield power by simply deciding where to spend or give away their money. And the collective power of people as individual voters is the sword President George W. Bush is wielding with a foreign policy that presses other countries to become democracies.

But you have to wield power to demonstrate you have it.

Voters must vote. If a philanthropist gives money to a cause or organization that accomplishes something with the funds, the benefactor ...

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