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DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland.
17 MORRIS CHANG Born in mainland China and edu-cated in the U.S., Chang, 70, is credited with creating Taiwan's semiconductor industry. The firm he founded in 1987, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, has become a global leader, building microchips for everything from PCs to cell phones while leaving the design...
21 N. R. MURTHY A former socialist who in the 1970s gave away all his money, Murthy, 55, is now among India's richest men, and Infosys, the company he co-founded in 1981, was the first Indian firm to be listed on the NASDAQ. Based in Bangalore, INFOSYS creates...
Former presidential candidate Stephen N. Smith ’02, who is now working on the Bonner-Long campaign and founded BASIC and Har’dCorps, said the groups’ decisions were based on Bonner and Long’s “vision” for community...
He also founded Greenworks, a corporation that incubates environmental start-up companies and the Health Action Alliance, which fought for universal health care in Massachusetts.