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Five decades after he started campaigning for a “New Boston,” the lawyer-developer turned philanthropist Jerome L. Rappaport ’47 continued his effort Wednesday with a $12.35 million donation from his charitable foundation to Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston...
...symbol, not a personality, precisely because (unlike a politician) he does not have to hustle and promote himself to win the people's favor. King Bhumibol happens to be hugely admired across Thailand, acclaimed as a musician, painter, patent-holding inventor and, most of all, philanthropist, who constantly goes around his kingdom offering development projects to help his people. But what he really seems to have mastered is the art of remaining highly visible, yet at some level out of sight. His thoughts and longings are not chronicled in the daily papers; instead, he remains a figurehead who holds...
...state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April 3 at his Louisville, Ky., home. He was 72.The man who went by “Barry Jr.” made his name as a hard-nosed newspaper publisher, a generous philanthropist, and a pioneer in journalistic ethics. But after his family’s loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused his life.At Bingham’s funeral on April 6, Rev. Alfred R. Shands of the Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily...
...museum had always been able to buy work, it would now have “one of the greatest collections in the country, if not the world,” said Barbara Lee, a Boston philanthropist whose foundation has donated $6.5 million to the new building...
...presented John Hope Bryant with the Vanguard Award, a tribute presented to a distinguished black male outside the Harvard Community who is “selfless, dedicated, and service oriented,” according to Tiffanye Threadcraft ’07. Past winners have included talk show host and philanthropist Montel Williams, journalist Kevin Powell, and news broadcaster Ed Gordon. Bryant delivered a fiery keynote address, punctuated by the occasional “amen” from the audience, when he said that the black community should take up the challenge of eradicating the poverty that disproportionately afflicts its population...