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Other recipients of this year's award include: Brooke Astor, the New York philanthropist; Justin Dart, Jr., considered the father of the Americans with Disabilities Act; Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers; and Wilma Mankiller, who became the first women to be elected as the leader of an American Indian tribe...
...year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career. During his years running the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., and helping his Uncle Ted win a tough Senate re-election fight in 1994, Michael had earned a reputation as a creative philanthropist and political counselor. He was all set to run his brother Joe's campaign for Governor of Massachusetts, and then maybe run for office himself. But that chapter reached its ugly ending last April, when Michael's 16-year marriage publicly collapsed amid accusations that he had had an affair with...
...value of Feeney's ownership stake in the duty-free shop empire DFS Group Ltd., which he turned over to the foundations in 1984--remains in the trusts' coffers. Feeney's beneficence already ranks among the grandest of any living American and may someday make him the most generous philanthropist of all time...
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...