Word: philanthropists
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Rhodes scholarships were established in 1904 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and colonialist. The names of the winners were announced Saturday by the Rhodes Scholarship Trust at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif...
...received more of his attention than the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1987, at the museum's behest and with the assistance of two of its curators, Searle purchased a Degas pastel known as Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from their relatives by the Nazis. "My family was murdered, their possessions destroyed or stolen," says Simon Goodman, a Los Angeles businessman who, together with his brother and aunt, is suing Searle. "These...
...first exposure to Gates, the Net philanthropist, came a few weeks ago, when the techies at Pathfinder noticed that the computers that serve up the Web versions of TIME, FORTUNE, PEOPLE, MONEY, etc. were behaving, well, drunkenly (my word). The sites were running even slower than is normal on the World Wide Wait. Indeed, some users were complaining that it took longer to download a page of TIME Daily than it did to have a pair of pants dry-cleaned...
...huge donation left American diplomats elated and at the same time somewhat embarrassed. Soros, a Hungarian-born philanthropist who has already poured $260 million into Russia since 1994, will now be sending more foreign aid to the country than the U.S. government. "He has been doing what we should have done but did not have the capacity or imagination to do," admitted a State Department official...
...Warren Buffett for criticism, but he denied last week that his gift was intended to send a message to any specific person. Gates has already "dramatically increased the amount he has given," Turner says. "I'm not on anyone's case right now." His role models range from billionaire philanthropist George Soros to octogenarian Oseola McCarty, the Mississippi washerwoman who gave $150,000 to pay for scholarships at a local college. And, says Turner, he draws inspiration from A Christmas Carol ("the greatest book on giving I ever read") and the joy Scrooge finds when he finally adopts a more...