KIOLI: Keep It On Long Island

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Harry Wallace, Unkechaug Nation Chief

Representing one of Long Island’s native people is an unenviable task. Wallace is the elected chief of the Unkechaug Indian Nation that calls the Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic home. The media generally portrays Poospatuck as the smaller, renegade and insignificant sister of the high-profile Shinnecock, but while Poospatuck may be geographically tiny, Wallace’s influence is [...]

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Saul Katz, Sterling Equities President

As any Mets fan will tell you, Katz and his partner Fred Wilpon are making big moves for their team. But not all fans agree on his choices. Some may say the team’s additions this year may be reason for this power broker to be either bumped up the Power List, while naysayers would like [...]

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Julian Robertson, Tiger Management Corp. Founder

In these days of crashing hedge funds and a parade of Bernie Madoffs being led to jail, it is hard to believe that anyone in the hedge fund business ever had any success without being crooked. But some have—especially Julian Robertson. In 1980, Robertson took an $8 million startup, Tiger Management Corp., and built it [...]

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Victor and Doreen Ciappa, Parents of Natalie Ciappa and Founders of Not My Child Foundation

Admittedly, Victor and Doreen Ciappa never wanted to be on the Power List. Their position is born of the ultimate grief. In June of 2008, their daughter Natalie—a beautiful, smart and talented teenager just beginning her adult life—became the unwitting poster child for the heroin scourge that is besieging LI when she died of an [...]

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Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory President

The work that the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory president and director of its Cancer Center has done on cell division has formed the building blocks for understanding diseases, particularly cancer, and earned him the title of “DNA Sleuth.” Succeeding Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson, Ph.D., who stepped down last October after making headlines [...]

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Todd Fabricant, Cerro Wire Coalition Chairman

Chalk one up for the little guy. When Taubman Centers, Inc. announced plans to build a mall on the abandoned Cerro Wire Property in Syosset more than a decade ago, a battle of civil will was launched that, to this day, still has as much acrimony and firepower as it had on day one. Fabricant [...]

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Rabbi Marc Schneier, Foundation For Ethnic Understanding Founder and President

Ask people about who is the most influential Jewish spiritual and social leader on Long Island, and one name keeps coming up: Rabbi Marc Schneier, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress American Section and the past president of North American Board of Rabbis. In 2007 and 2008, he was on Newsweek’s top 50 American [...]

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John Venditto, Oyster Bay Town Supervisor

In a sea change that has swept many Republican-controlled towns and villages to the Democrats, Venditto has remained steadfast, continuing to deliver for his constituents and standing as a strong leader in Oyster Bay. His tenacity and unwillingness to bend in the face of Taubman Centers, Inc.’s more than decade-long quest to develop a mega [...]

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