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...died of pneumonia 18 days later, but at the time, Dr. Michael DeBakey, who consulted on Boris Yeltsin's surgery last week, declared it to be "a great achievement." Suffering from arthritis, Barnard retired in 1983. Since then he has written a number of novels. His latest book, The Donor, was just published in England. Barnard spends a lot of time on a 32,000-acre ranch with his third wife, Karin, and their son, Armin. He was intrigued by DeBakey's visit but could not comment on Yeltsin's surgery, saying, "Right now I don't follow the news...
Johnson, 66, doesn't take a bye when it comes to getting things done. He loves to take a thought into production. Witness the donor-directed charitable trust he created three years ago, the first of its kind in the country. Philanthropy, in fact, is a passion with him. In the past 30 years, two Fidelity foundations have given over $50 million to 3,000 nonprofit organizations. A third foundation, controlled more closely by the Johnson family, has helped everything from Planned Parenthood to the Buddhist Churches of America, the latter reflecting Johnson's interest in Eastern philosophy...
...hearing will emphasize "the importance of being an organ donor in a nation where 47,000 people are awaiting life-saving transplant operations," said Kennedy press aide Darcy...
Kennedy and Moakley are longtime proponents of organ donation legislation. They were founders of the bi-partisan Congressional Task Force on Organ and Tissue Donation and championed the Organ Donor Card Insert Act and the Organ and Bone Marrow Transplant Program...
...present agreement. The difference, although picky, would have been that the board of trustees made the decision, not Harvard. PBHA would function, essentially, like the non-profit corporation it is, and recognize the enormous contributions Harvard makes to our operations and give Harvard the same respect any other donor would receive...