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This year TIME should look at Warren Buffett. Rather than duplicating what Bill and Melinda Gates have done, he supported them by donating billions to their foundation. Buffett has been a business and philanthropy icon for years, but this takes him to a whole new level...
...spend itself out of existence, possibly before the end of the 21st century. The Gates Foundation will spend all of its resources within 50 years of the death of the last member of the board of trustees, consisting of Bill Gates, 51, Melinda French Gates, 42, and Warren E. Buffett, 76, the Foundation announced last week. The foundation, whose endowment will be $63 billion—more than double Harvard’s—when Buffett’s pledge of $31 billion is realized, will direct the money toward promoting global health and development, according...
...discriminate as a organization, and we want to garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent entrepreneurs, including an October trip to Nebraska to meet America’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, and a meeting last April with NBC Universal CEO Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86, who is also a former Crimson president. —Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...
...Salty Piece of Land,” by Jimmy Buffett...
...book by Jimmy Buffett has to be good, right? That seems to be what his marketing team was thinking, since Buffett’s name, in red foiled lettering, dwarfs not only the little lighthouse hanging out on the aforementioned piece of land, but also the title, which practically gets lost against its background of sky with puffy white clouds. This would have made great beach reading, but might be too painful a reminder during the long winter months...