Longtime Bush crony Roland Betts is founder and chairman of Chelsea Piers. His daughter is social fixture Maggie Betts.

Ken Raske is president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the state's powerful hospital lobbying group. Nearly 300 hospitals and continuing care facilities in the tri-state area are members of the organization.

Along with Roland Betts, Tom Bernstein is the president and co-founder of Chelsea Piers, a lifelong Democrat, and a longtime Bush supporter.

A man as influential as the size of his headpieces, André Leon Talley is editor-at-large at Vogue and former judge on America's Next Top Model.

Paige Rense

James Dolan

Indra Nooyi is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, and has been ranked as one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine.

Chuck Dolan is the founder and chairman of the cable and entertainment giant Cablevision. His son is Jim Dolan, Cablevision's CEO.

Bikoff is the founder and CEO of Energy Brands Inc., the parent company of Glaceau, which distributes "enhanced water" products like Smartwater, Fruitwater, and Vitaminwater. He's also very rich man: In May 2007, Coke purchased the Queens-based company for more than $4 billion.

Vanden Heuvel is the editor, publisher, and part-owner of liberal bastion The Nation.

The former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., Pearlstine may be best known for his controversial decision to hand a reporter's notes over to a federal prosecutor in 2005. He's currently the chief content officer at Bloomberg L.P.

Stewart Rahr

Zev Rosenwaks

A noted pediatrician, Loughlin is an expert on childhood lung diseases and the chair of the pediatrics department at Weill Cornell Children's Hospital.

The director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Ho is one of the world's top AIDS researchers. His groundbreaking research on HIV "cocktail" therapies in the 1990s earned him worldwide recognition and the title of Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1996.

Are you a millionaire with a receding hairline? Dr. Bob Bernstein would like to talk to you about one of his hair-transplant packages.

The editor of The New York Times' daily crossword, Shortz is the man responsible for frustrating millions of people around the globe every day.

If the name Norman Goodman makes you uncomfortable, there's a good reason—as the New York County Clerk, his name appears on the more than 6,000 jury summonses that get sent out every week.

Martin Dunn

A gadfly writer and poet known for her pieces on sex, gender, and feminism, Pollitt is a longtime editor at the Nation and a regular contributor of poems and thought pieces to left-leaning publications like Mother Jones, the New Yorker, and Harper's. Her first husband was Randy Cohen, the writer of the "Ethicist" column for the New York Times Magazine.