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...have to go back nearly a century to find philanthropy that compares in scale and scope to the giving of today's tycoons. Names like Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller are synonymous with fabulous wealth and technological innovation as well as a societal flowering that brought forth libraries, hospitals and universities. Foreign visitors to New York City are often surprised to learn that each of its great museums was built with private money. America's intellectual infrastructure was donated by philanthropists as well as created by public spending. And just as Gilded Age tycoons left a legacy of great institutions...
...underscore the idea that this well-bred scion of a political dynasty is a regular guy with a good heart. Whether it's grainy footage in the convention film of Bush's childhood in Midland, Texas; a 30-sec. ad featuring Bush behind the wheel of a beat-up Ford Bronco on his dusty ranch outside Waco; or a candid moment at home when he and his wife Laura share a laugh at his expense, the point will be the same: that Bush, with his sunny optimism and persuasive charm, is the antidote to eight years of duplicity and partisan...
...foundation is as spartan in structure and style as an Internet start-up. There are just 25 employees, in contrast to 525 for the venerable Ford Foundation. The Gates Foundation staff members wade through more than 3,000 serious funding requests each month. And that doesn't count the perpetual-motion machines and colonic-cleansing devices with which promoters could save the world if only Bill and Melinda would throw a few million dollars their way. Worthy projects are filtered up by Stonesifer, Dr. Gordon Perkin and Bill's dad for review by Bill and Melinda...
Ellison is not a man to shy away from his own Smithian self-interest, and he believes the profit motive could be the best tool for solving the world's problems--more effective than government or private philanthropy. "Which did more for the world?" he asks. "The Ford Motor Co. or the Ford Foundation?" He shakes his head. "That's an interesting question...
...quotidian creepiness. And as long as it does, director Robert Zemeckis' movie goes like a (haunted) house afire--mysterious moans from the heating system, the hint of a stalking presence, even some strange initials on Claire's computer screen. Everyone--especially her gruffly good-natured husband Norman (Harrison Ford)--says Claire is overwrought...