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Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize--winning author and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University...
...hunt by right-wing lawyers headed by Starr, who, while not politically active, was a conservative Republican. Holder never publicly endorsed that view but fanned it by drawing public attention to similar allegations in the Whitewater case: a prosecution witness had supposedly received payments by anti-Clinton philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife to discredit the President. In April, Holder wrote to Starr, urging him to look into the matter, and then released the letter to the press. The accusation rested on shaky stories by questionable sources, but the DOJ's public spotlighting of it undercut Starr's credibility...
...search for a scientist to fill the position, known as the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, will begin as soon as the endowment is complete, Lie said. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will match Cornwell’s gift...
After receiving funds from the Mellon foundation, the center approached Cornwell, who has given to both the center and the museum in the past. “Ms. Cornwell has been a very generous benefactor,” Manoogian said...
...After college, he worked at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, where he learned about computing technology. He quit after a few years and moved to Dallas in 1982, where he eventually started a consulting and computer company that he sold for $6 million in 1990. After the sale, Cuban moved to Los Angeles and played roles in several small movies. (He later appeared in several episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger...