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DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...
...enough to know say that she is genuinely undecided but that Bill is not disguising his eagerness to see her make a bid for his old job. "He thinks that she should run, and he's going to do everything possible to help her," says Texas insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a longtime Clinton friend and backer...
...Stay the course. Fifteen years after junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken went to prison for securities fraud, he is still slowly rebuilding his image as a philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a third strike. The first strike came from comments Gibson's father made denying the Holocaust, the second from depictions of Jews in his film The Passion in what many saw as a negative light. "When you do something that plays into a preconception, you have to recognize that it will...
...last month that he was giving up his day-to-day duties at the company to devote more time to charitable giving-and with Warren Buffett's blockbuster $30 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, he will be busy. TIME's April 16, 1984, cover story profiled the future philanthropist...
...Rockefeller also regretted that President Summers wasn’t going to be leading the university,” Seitel said. However, he added that the philanthropist “has great confidence in Harvard and is a strong supporter and looks forward to working with whoever the next president...