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Lest we forget, Bill Gates is the world's richest entrepreneur, who made his fortune in the free market. Capitalism is not, per se, a force for good, but the good it enables is immense. Anyone who doubts its unmatched power to finance good works should bear that image of Mr. and Mrs. Gates in mind. KEVIN A. SHAPIRO...
...football league Rozelle inherited in 1960 was a fragmented collection of 12 franchises, each run more or less as a stand-alone business. The squabbling owners faced serious competition from the newly formed American Football League, bankrolled by one of the richest men in America, Lamar Hunt. Rozelle's first trick, one that Rockefeller would have admired, was to put an end to the unprofitable competition. In 1962 he traveled to Washington and persuaded Congress to grant the NFL the first of two exemptions to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The exemption enabled Rozelle to fold the two leagues into...
...field, and that the key to fierce competition was every team's having roughly the same amount of money to spend on players. To that end Rozelle persuaded NFL owners--two dozen raving megalomaniacs--to share their television spoils equally. While there still remains a discrepancy between the richest franchise (Dallas) and the poorest (Indianapolis), the difference is a fraction of that in other pro sports...
...social and demographic currents that were sweeping the country--especially outside its cities--better than anyone else in business. That acumen hastened his rise from humble proprietor of a variety store in the little Delta cotton town of Newport, Ark., to largest retailer in the world and richest man in America...
...young? Can't be. Endowment Payout Harvard finally realizes that money can't buy you love, no matter how much you hoard. Good. Go spend it on something worthwhile. Bill Gates Gives $100 million for child immunizations in developing countries. Nice try, but you're still the world's richest dork. Dan Duquette Red Sox GM a loser in the free agent bidding war. Looks like the Sox won't be contenders again 'till the next millenium. Method Man Wu-Tang Clan disciple leaves the Shaolin ghetto for ritzy Cambridge. Future Class Day speaker...