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Article: Deciphering Blair Hull
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 29, 2004
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Who is Blair Hull?
Who is this Dem senatorial hopeful whose billboards have suddenly
sprouted like mushrooms after rain all over Illinois?
Is he the volatile ex-husband who swatted his ex-wife on the ankle
and, in a peak of rare anger, threatened to kill her during a
contentious second divorce?
Or is he a thrice-married Mr. Peepers with a history of troubled
female relationships who thinks in mathematical algorithms; a guru of
computational procedures who lives quietly with his dog in a simply
furnished house in Old Town?
Somewhere in this mixture lies a complicated man with simple
tastes; a mathematical whiz and securities trader who sold a
brilliant formula to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for ...