Word: philanthropist
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...FINED. GEORGE SOROS, 72, Hungarian-born financier, speculator and philanthropist; $2.3 million, over a 14-year-old insider trading case involving shares of bank Societe Generale; in Paris. A French court said Soros used privileged information about a takeover bid to make $2 million on the firm's stock...
Multimillionaire philanthropist and art lover Gregory C. Carr has learned one of the cardinal rules of Cambridge politics the hard...
...numb pain, relieve the eye pressure of glaucoma, calm muscle spasms or get the munchies to help with AIDS wasting (see following story). But they are not the people who put the debate into high gear. A few years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance--an organization founded by billionaire philanthropist Soros, who wants to legalize marijuana and reform drug laws by replacing jail time with rehab--decided it would fund only those initiatives that could be won. So the group ran a bunch of polls to find out how America feels about the drug wars, and the reformers came...
...times, threatened to sue the paper for libel, but the parties reached an agreement in which the paper would print an apology in its pages. The apology came last week in the form of a front-page headline that read, a humble and sincere apology to Mr. Steve Bing, philanthropist and humanitarian. The excessively abject tone of the retraction on the inside pages, as well as an article on a facing page suggesting that Americans lack the English proficiency at irony, led some, including Bing's lawyers, to believe the Mirror was not nearly so penitent as it should have...
...dream of morphing into someone else has faded. However, on days when it isn’t so fun to be Angie C. Marek, I still dream of one childhood hero whose life I wouldn’t mind adopting. That person is a rock star, a philanthropist and a successful CEO all wrapped into one neat, pink-haired package. That person...