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...many suffering patients or the doctors who hope to cure them; the church's sin is their salvation. Likewise the accumulation of excessive wealth: leave aside the historical irony of this charge issuing from the Vatican. What do we make of Bill Gates, the Great Acquisitor, who, as a philanthropist, is now arguably the greatest individual force for good around the world? Does it not seem as if he has grasped the eternal somewhere along...
...campaign. It spent money with abandon in the earliest primaries and assumed that the race would not last past Super Tuesday, on Feb. 5 - and failed to prepare for any of the states that followed. Two weeks before the Texas primary, Bill Clinton telephoned Waco insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a friend and backer since the 1970s. Rapoport told Clinton that this was the first contact he had had from anyone on the campaign. "He was madder than mad," Rapoport says. "He was right. There was so much we could have done, but we never heard from anyone...
...example, the long-standing goal of reaching out to departments throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order to pinpoint the particulars of writing in various disciplines seems to have lost traction, according to Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas and philanthropist Morton I. Sosland ’46, whose family gave millions to start Expos in the 1990s...
...singer and songwriter, philanthropist and renowned convert to Islam...
...Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government will establish a new program in social justice leadership using a $20 million gift from the estate of television mogul and philanthropist Alan L. Gleitsman, the school plans to announce today. The gift is the largest single gift in the history of the Center and establishes an endowment for the seven-year-old institution. The program, to be named the “Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change,” will finance student fellowships, visiting scholars, and curriculum development in social activism. Gleitsman, who made his fortune...