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...those who are counting). Says Sylvia Mathews, the foundation's chief operating officer: "We joke and say Bill and Melinda have 21/2 degrees: she has two; he has a half." (Melinda, 41, has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and a master's in business from Duke University. Bill, 50, dropped out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year to run Microsoft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Riches to Rags | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...PLEADED GUILTY. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from San Diego, California; to accepting $2.4 million from military contractors in bribes that included a Rolls-Royce, mortgage payments and an antique French commode; in Washington. The tough-on-crime Republican, who in July vowed to fight all charges, stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his tearful confession. "I cannot undo what I have done," said Cunningham, who faces up to 10 years in prison. "But I can atone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which men "found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays a very small role in Protestantism, aside from cameo appearances in Advent and on Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father & Child | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...clashed—but for the second year in a row, athletic prowess and strategy won the day for Dunster House. The tournament, well on its way to becoming a beloved Harvard tradition, offered the chance for each upperclass House, as well as University Hall, to form teams and duke it out for the title of Dodgeball champion. The tournament made its debut last December as a joint effort between the Undergraduate Council, the Dean’s office, Harvard Christian Impact’s Athletes in Action, and the Intramurals Program. Dane J. Skillrud...

Author: By Alyssa M Aguilera, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duck! Dunster Nabs Dodgeball Tourney | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...convinced that there's also money to be made from handmade silk scarves, woven bags, beaded jewelry and "nonviolent" leather products (the cow must die of natural causes). The business "can help thousands and thousands of communities," says Haji. And within a year, it was in the black. Says Duke's Dees: "Business doesn't know better than the nonprofit world. It just provides another set of tools that we should look at using for social good. And we should use any tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philanthropy: Meet the Hard-Nosed Do-Gooders | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

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