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...active philanthropist in Los Angeles, serving on the boards of the Huntington Memorial Hospital, the Westridge School and KCET, a public television station...
...Soros Shares His Wealth As your interview with George Soros showed [March 1], the billionaire philanthropist definitely has his heart and mind in the right place when he pledges to reject President George W. Bush's policies. Given the current political climate, however, Soros could spend his money more effectively by developing a media alternative to extreme right-wing-propaganda outlets?perhaps a public-affairs forum with General Wesley Clark as host. Clark has the experience (in the military, foreign affairs, media, politics), intellect and personality to carry a major opinion show. It would be a match made in heaven...
DIED. MARGE SCHOTT, 75, controversial philanthropist and former owner of the Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a wealthy widow, Schott bought the baseball team in 1984, but she knew little about the sport; she once settled a contract dispute by flipping a coin. Reds executives accused her of using racial and ethnic slurs. In a 1992 interview she said, "Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far." Several similarly offensive comments followed, and in 1999, under pressure from the team's limited partners, Schott sold her controlling interest. To many in the city she remained beloved...
...DIED. MARGE SCHOTT, 75, philanthropist and controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati. Under Schott, a lumber magnate's daughter who gave her St. Bernard dogs the run of the ballpark, the Reds won the 1990 baseball World Series. But Schott was twice suspended from running the franchise after making insensitive remarks, including slurs against black players and praise for Adolf Hitler. ("Hitler was good in the beginning," she told a newspaper, "but he went...
Speaking of fact-checking: Kavulla also asserts that my two largest lecture courses are interchangeable, when the syllabi contain only three short articles that overlap. Most of the interview guests are new; but even those who are returning, such as the philanthropist Swanee Hunt, answer an entirely new set of student questions...