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...education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) led a furious, and scurrilous, campaign against his generosity. The philanthropist is in seclusion now-friends say he is stunned and distressed-but his is a story that deserves telling...
Lawyer and philanthropist William H. Gates, Sr., father of the Microsoft founder, addressed his fellow inductees about the importance of retaining the Federal Estate...
...dovish, too insubstantial, too cranky to survive the first presidential contest of the post-9/11 era. As for the rest of the field, it looks like a blur to most voters. "Frankly, none of them have gotten people very excited," says Eli Broad, a billionaire Los Angeles philanthropist who is one of the party's largest and most influential donors. "Wes Clark just might...
...Broad, the California philanthropist who committed the first $100 million to the genome initiative, passed over elite institutions in his home state to make his big bet on Boston. Maybe that kind of recognition, coming from 3,000 miles away, will help all of us see the opportunities right in front...
...Market is the brainchild of Gregory C. Carr, a philanthropist and 1986 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Carr is the namesake of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the KSG and the funder of a radio station in Kandahar, Afghanistan...