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...good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pique Performance | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla sugar daddy catches him with a younger man, Reyes' life spirals into a downward haze of methamphetamine and menial jobs. Reyes then snaps and goes on a murder spree, his victims including his rich benefactor and his boyfriend. Only then, Most Wanted makes clear does he finally feel wanted, if only because he is chased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrew Cunanan: The Musical! | 10/6/2007 | See Source »

Edsel Ford was a cultured man, a collector and an arts benefactor, in a town and time where culture equaled "pie-eating contest." He supported expeditions to the polar ice caps. His philanthropic legacy lives on in the Ford Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edsel Agonistes | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

Gates is a major Harvard donor and primary benefactor of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization in the world. With $33.4 billion, the foundation oversees the largest endowment any non-profit organization, surpassing even Harvard?...

Author: By Robert J. Prior, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard To Confer 6,871 Degrees | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...itself,” Bok notes in his abstract, “the act of accepting a donation does not imply an endorsement of the views or actions of the benefactor...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Equal Privileges For Notorious Alums | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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