Pausing to gaze from his office window on the 47th floor of the Library Tower downtown, Jack McConaghy admits the past several months have been "stressful." On Aug. 7, McConaghy and his partners gave in to months of defections and voted to...

For all of his titanic achievements in the private sector and military and as a most generous backer of charities and community, Jack Eckerd nevertheless fell short in all three of his bids to win elective office. In a sense, his undoing in elective...