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By REPORTER ASSOCIATES Brenda Cherry, Muoi Tran

August 11, 2003

(FORTUNE Magazine) – HERB ALLEN The guest list at the billionaire investment banker's annual Sun Valley, Idaho, confab reads like a Who's Who of our most powerful: No. 1 Warren Buffett, No. 2 Bill Gates, and No. 3 Lee Scott all attended this year.

JOE BACHELDER This 70-year-old lawyer makes the rich richer. He has negotiated more megabuck CEO contracts (for folks like IBM's Lou Gerstner and Honeywell's Larry Bossidy) than anyone else.

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