Word: buffetts
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...hunt for good companies that are out of favor. Then wait. If they really are good, the herd will find them, usually after some event calls attention to what the crowd has been missing--like Gates writing a check to Comcast. That's the way Warren Buffett invests. Buffett--one of Gates' buddies, by the way--wouldn't touch most cable stocks because of the debt. But then he's never dabbled much in technology stocks because he finds them confusing. Gates, on the other hand, knows a thing or two about the information highway. He may not have Buffett...
...hard for him to move up very far. By the way, with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...still game, for, as her story shows, the tall girl who had to struggle "not to be lonely" at Vassar has always been drawn to men with an edge--her dazzling but erratic husband Phil Graham; her legendary editor, Ben Bradlee; and her unconventional mentor, investor Warren Buffett...
...among your readers is interested in the details of baby Gates or the personal habits of Warren Buffett? Has TIME gone the way of PEOPLE? Gates has become more insufferable than TV talk-show host Larry King. More boring than O.J. Simpson. More insupportable than the Newt Gingrich and the Clinton family scandals and improprieties. Please change the subject or face the desertion of readers like me. CARLOS ARAUJO Rio de Janeiro...
...hopes to be running Microsoft for another 10 years, he says, then promises to focus as intensely on giving his money away. He says he plans to leave his children about $10 million each. "He will spend time, at some point, thinking about the impact his philanthropy can have," Buffett says. "He is too imaginative to just do conventional gifts." Already he's given $34 million to the University of Washington, partly to fund a chair for human genome-project researcher Leroy Hood; $15 million (along with $10 million from Ballmer) for a new computer center at Harvard...