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Toward the end of his term as Harvard President, Derek C. Bok spoke generally of greater international outreach from the world's oldest and richest university. His successor has devoted much time, energy and money to making the dream a reality...
...being seen to do a Gerald Ford on his old boss won?t endear Habibie to a restive public that widely suspects Suharto got rich at their expense for decades. After all, Suharto and his family are a regular fixture on Forbes magazine?s lists of the world?s richest people ? and that?s quite an achievement for a man from an impoverished background whose employment over the past four decades has been as a military commander and head of state...
Swiss and Russian officials are investigating two other cases with far smaller dollar values but with huge political stakes. In one instance Swiss authorities raided two companies, named Andava and Forus. They were allegedly used by Boris Berezovsky--one of Russia's richest titans and an intimate of Yeltsin who helped bankroll his 1996 re-election, and reputedly handles the Yeltsin family finances--to misappropriate hard-currency receipts diverted from the Russian airline Aeroflot. In the other instance a Swiss-based construction company called Mabetex allegedly paid bribes to government officials, notably Pavel Borodin, another Yeltsin intimate and manager...
...Music Hall had three sires--John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of the world's richest man, whose eponymous Depression-defying venture in urban optimism was the greatest accomplishment of his life; S.L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, a monomaniacal showman whose idea of appropriate scale ranged from enormous to gargantuan; and Donald Deskey, a design buccaneer whose best-known work, eclipsing even the Music Hall, would be the Crest toothpaste tube. But what these three unlikely collaborators built, and what renovation architect Hugh Hardy and his colleagues at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates have now reinvigorated, changed the course of American interior design...
Three years ago, Gates, the richest man in the world with a net worth of $90 billion, was chided by Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner and others for not giving away enough of his money. Since then, the Gates Foundation has pledged $4 billion to various causes...