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After money manager Jeffrey Epstein was charged in July with soliciting sex from prostitutes, several recipients of his donations distanced themselves from the New York billionaire. But though Epstein wrote a $6.5 million check to Harvard—with the possibility of additional millions down the line—the University said yesterday that it has no plans to return the gift. The donation, first announced in 2003, finances the work of mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, the director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after...
...comedy writer to political pundit, radio host, best-selling author and, of course, Bill O'Reilly's longstanding bête noire, Al Franken has had many different roles. His latest: the subject of a low-budget indie documentary, God Spoke, rolling out in theaters this week. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner talked to the loquacious liberal just hours before Franken dashed off to a Democratic National Committee event...
...meant the end of the criminal case against the former Enron chairman. But prosecutors want to change that. On Wednesday, they filed a a motion asking Judge Sim Lake to hold off on signing the paperwork vacating Lay's conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges until former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced in late October. In the motion, prosecutors propose a new law that criminal cases not be abated when the defendant dies, as is current legal precedent. In an effort to also get a Congressional hearing on the proposal, copies were sent to the Speaker of the House...
...greatly,? Dreamworks SKG co-founder David Geffen said in a statement. (Geffen refused to comment on a CNBC story, which a cable channel reporter attributed to Redstone, that Geffen called the Viacom chairman following the news about Freston and suggested that he buy Dreamworks Animation and hire its chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, to run Viacom as well...
...Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald's previous documentaries have screened - in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release mid-month, and later thousands of grass-roots "house parties" where the documentary video is played for invited friends and neighbors. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner spoke with Greenwald as two of his films - the one he directed, another he produced - appear on the scene...