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During the summer, Brooke M. Ellison '00, one of the first quadriplegic students to graduate from the College, signed a contract with Hyperion Books for publication of her autobiography, which an editor said she has already begun to write...
...want it to be inspirational, kind of like a Tuesdays with Morrie thing," said Jennifer Lang, Ellison's acquiring editor at Hyperion Books, referring to Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir. The book tells the story of a young man's meetings with his dying former college professor...
...completely averse to charity, but for a man worth $50 billion, Ellison doesn't give all that much: $100 million a year, he says, to his Lawrence Ellison Foundation, which finances medical research, especially into potential cancer cures. His single largest contribution outside the foundation was $5 million, to the University of California Davis Medical Center in 1998. "This isn't about who can write the biggest check. I mean, no one, actually, can write a bigger check than me. The point is results," Ellison says. "There are so many venture capitalists chasing dumb ideas, and philanthropists are just...
...Ellison believes he does more good for society through his entrepreneurship, particularly his investments in biotech start-ups that he feels may have a leg up on finding a cure for cancer and other diseases. He has made cancer fighting a personal goal; his mother died from the disease...
...specifics of any giving they may have done--and who Clark believes have been too frugal. "These guys actually ran the Yahoo servers out of Stanford," says Clark. "They should be giving something back. These guys are young, but they've got more money than me. Or take Larry Ellison; he should be doing more." But Clark remains optimistic: "These new-money guys, first they have to get a couple of houses, the plane. At that point they'll think about, How can I do something more impacting...