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...asked Sushila whether she knew the names of the people who had visited that morning. She said that she did not but that they were very nice. I told her the man in the khaki pants was the richest man in the world. Sushila smiled and said it didn't matter that he was the richest. All foreigners were rich compared with her, she said...
Their friends and the staff at the Gates Foundation go to great lengths to emphasize that Melinda and Bill are equals. "She is not a junior partner in any way, shape or form. Bill likes that," says Warren Buffett, a close friend (and the second richest man in the world, for those who are counting). Says Sylvia Mathews, the foundation's chief operating officer: "We joke and say Bill and Melinda have 21/2 degrees: she has two; he has a half." (Melinda, 41, has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and a master's in business from...
...people in the world," says his father, known to everyone at the foundation as "Senior." "He didn't want to have another entity to worry about." But solicitations were pouring in--and piling up, unanswered. "Anybody who had an eye out for a dollar was mailing letters to the richest man in the country," his father says...
Such is the nature of Bono's fame that just about everyone in the world wants to meet him--except for the richest man in the world, who thought it would be a waste of time. "World health is immensely complicated," says Gates, recalling that first encounter in 2002. "It doesn't really boil down to a 'Let's be nice' analysis. So I thought a meeting wouldn't be all that valuable...
When University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, first envisioned the House system, it was meant to address social segregation on campus through regular social contact. The year was 1928, and Harvard students were deeply divided. The richest of the students lived on Mt. Auburn Street in lavish apartment buildings, several of which now make up most of Adams House. Those less well off lived in the Yard in buildings that would be condemned today; they did not even have plumbing. Many students commuted from Boston. The social discrepancy was so bad that a New York Daily Post writer...