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Turner started his call to checkbooks in August 1996, when, incensed by a New York Times report that the very wealthy give away a smaller proportion of their wealth than other economic groups, he told Times columnist Maureen Dowd that the Forbes 400 list of millionaires "is destroying our country...
Two days ago, Forbes magazine, the target of Turner's ire, released its annual list of the nation's 400 richest people. This year, the list included 170 billionaires, up from 135 in 1996. When the magazine started the list in 1982, there were just 13 billionaires.
Turner has long cultivated a reputation for brashness in support of causes he believes in, many of them involving the environment and the stresses of overpopulation. In the past year, his hectoring of the very rich has increased in volume and sharpness, possibly as a prelude to a major philanthropic...
Last year, numerous alumni, led by H.A Crosby Forbes '50 protested to these very changes. They sought to maintain the "integrity" of the Union, to preserve old architecture because it was old. They recalled their student days with such fondness that they sought to petrify it. They did not recognize...
Soros is now here to help save America from itself. Of all things, he is worried that "excessive individualism," defined by Wall Street's market mentality, has replaced traditional values. Writing in the Atlantic Monthly this year, he warned that the unbridled market is a greater threat to "Open Societies...