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...that description. The blunt-spoken, impulsive founder of Electronic Data Systems, who managed last week both to goad mighty General Motors into an expensive estrangement and get his name involved in Washington's Iran-contra scandal, has been variously called a dictator, a superpatriot and an inspiring, unassuming employer-philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series (NBC's May On Wings of Eagles). Says a close Perot friend, Dallas Oilman...
Whatever else he is, Perot is a committed philanthropist. Through the Perot Foundation, he has donated more than $100 million, much of it to causes in the Dallas area. Substantial amounts of money have been targeted for education projects and other bootstrap programs for minorities. Meanwhile, Perot and his family (he and Wife Margot have five children, ages 15 to 28) live unassumingly in one of Dallas' affluent neighborhoods. Most of his evenings are spent quietly at home. To cut stuffy out-of-towners down to size, Perot has been known to take them for lunch to smoky, crowded barbecue...
...Rhodes committee in Zimbabwe awarded Benjamin L. Robinson ’06-’07 a Rhodes Scholarship last month, he became the eighth Harvard student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that some people...
...Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England...
Rhodes scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford. The Rhodes Trust was established by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa...