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...roommate after Bacon's death. Mordue could not be reached at his penthouse in Pattaya. But last week, Edwards' boyfriend, who asked to be identified as "Jack," was drinking coffee in a Pattaya bar and pondering his strange fortune. Just 16 when he first met Edwards, Jack says his benefactor left him something (he won't say what) and a last request: don't blow the inheritance by opening...
...benefactor, Mahoney, has emerged from the ordeal embittered and more than a little hoarse from fielding media interviews. Mahoney says Duke officials misled Jesica's parents, who barely speak English, about the gravity of Jesica's condition. "Dumb Mexicans--that's how they saw [the Santillans]," he growls. He says he had to fight the hospital to make it admit to--and attempt to fix--the mistake. He also claims that Duke officials refused to let him see the girl when they learned he was taking her story to the press. Says the hospital's CEO, Dr. William Fulkerson...
...propping up the country's bankrupt regime. In 1950, Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River and fought the U.S. to a stalemate, ending the Korean War and rescuing Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, from defeat. Today the mainland is North Korea's biggest benefactor, providing an estimated 40% of immediate food needs and 90% of its oil, according to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based research institute. Beijing has usually backed the North on the diplomatic front, too. But today there are signs that China is fed up with the dangerous antics...
Taft was a benefactor of many community and music groups, especially the Berkshire Music School. She enjoyed music, travel and the outdoors...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government suffered embarrassment last spring after its benefactor, A. Alfred Taubman, was jailed in connection with a price-fixing scheme between two major art auction houses...