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Summers said that the strength of the Broad Institute will be its parent institutions...
Rowling wrote to her parents three days later. "I consider myself privileged to have had contact with Catie," she wrote. "I can only aspire to being the sort of parent both of you have been to Catie during her illness. I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart all right." Catie's parents established the Catie Hoch Foundation to help young cancer patients. In November a check for $100,000 appeared, from Catie's favorite English friend. --With reporting by Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Amanda Bower/Albany, Harlene Ellin/Chicago, Rita Healy/Denver, Broward Liston/Orlando, Jeanne...
Rowling appreciates that she can use her name and money to support worthy charities, including those for one-parent families and victims of multiple sclerosis. (Her mother first showed symptoms when Rowling was 12, and suffered painfully for the five years before her death, when Rowling was 25.) "One of the few upsides of being famous is being able to do something meaningful for causes in which you believe," she tells TIME...
...around the world. Then Rowling will retreat from the spotlight to write book No. 6 and care for her family. She hopes to be remembered "as someone who did the best she could with the talent she was given. And I wouldn't mind being remembered as a good parent," she says. "But we won't know whether I've achieved that until my daughter writes J.K. Dearest." --By J.F.O. McAllister. With reporting by Jeff Chu/London
...Goliath. MoneyGram was founded in 1988, back when Western Union was spiraling toward bankruptcy. The industry leader had made a bad bet on its Telex division, which was obliterated by the sudden rise of the fax machine. But MoneyGram was dumped for antitrust reasons in 1996 after its parent company, First Data, picked up the much larger and better known Western Union, which had filed for Chapter...