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...million Amount donated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a vaccine for leishmania, a parasitic disease spread by sand flies...
Sophomore Colby Hall defeated Melinda Lee of Cornell in her first match, but lost to Penn's Katie Patrick in the Round of 32. Captain Blair Endresen, junior Virginia Brown and freshman Ella Witcher lost their opening matches...
Their gift indicates that the expanding ranks of tech millionaires are outgrowing their reputation for stinginess. Following the lead of Microsoft's Bill Gates and wife Melinda, who have given away at least $17 billion in recent years, more technology moguls are making serious commitments to philanthropy. As the Barksdales show, many are using an entrepreneurial approach--hands-on, well informed, demanding--to make sure their gifts are used effectively...
People tend not to trust the very wealthy. So it's probably not surprising that they questioned the motives of the world's richest man, Bill Gates, when he announced Monday that he had made a $5 billion contribution to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thus making it the largest charitable foundation in the world. Cynics labeled the move another attempt by Gates to paint himself as a more sympathetic character in Microsoft's ongoing antitrust litigation. The same accusations were made earlier this month when Gates stepped down as Microsoft's CEO, saying he wanted to focus more...
...sanctimony. Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her son Bobby Shriver are the executive producers of this inspirational film, which celebrates Mary's faith and wisdom. While the teleplay admittedly takes dramatic license, it is true to the Gospels. The dialogue is refreshingly unstilted, and the spare, understated performances of newcomer Melinda Kinnaman as the young Mary, Pernilla August (The Phantom Menace) as the mature Mary, and Christian Bale (Velvet Goldmine) as Jesus are credible and moving. One cranky question: Why do American filmmakers always insist that biblical figures spoke with British accents...