Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Julio Quinones and Blanca Jimenez received the Thomas J. White Prize in a ceremony in Science Center B. The prize was named in honor of White, a local philanthropist who graduated from Harvard...
...examined the new pages but legally could only paraphrase them, says that Suijk "got the pages because Otto didn't want to destroy them." The rest of Anne's original texts, including her revisions, are kept at the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Suijk is hoping that a philanthropist will buy his fragments and donate them to the Institute so that he can use the proceeds to support his center in New York...
FOUNDED Teddy Forstmann, philanthropist and leveraged-buyout genius, and his partners at Forstmann Little & Co. began this get-together several years...
...published books circling, vulture-like, in clear anticipation of his passing. At this point any recounting of his accomplishments--his unassailable greatness as a singer, his somewhat more assailable greatness as an actor, his impeccable taste as a curator of the great American songbook, his ancillary talents as both philanthropist and thug, his status as a totem of midcentury masculinity--inevitably takes on a dutiful, ritualistic air. So what better way to breathe a little life into the process than with an insult...
...federal funding of family-planning organizations abroad that condone abortion as an option. But the most obvious nod to religious conservatives in the Senate involves the blockage of Clinton's nomination of James Hormel to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is standard ambassadorial material--a businessman, a philanthropist, a former law school dean and, of course, a big-money donor to the Democratic Party. Under ordinary circumstances, Hormel's nomination would have sailed through the Senate with little notice. But Hormel, 65, is gay and a prominent advocate of gay rights, a background that drew the scrutiny and disapproval...