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...make a living by what we get, Churchill said, but we make a life by what we give. And to save a life? If you're Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, you give fantastic sums of money, more than $1 billion this year alone. But he also gives the brainpower that helped him make that money in the first place, hunting down the best ideas for where to fight, how to focus, what to fund. If you're a rock star like Bono, you give money. But you also give the hot white lights that follow...
...alone has had Gates on its cover three times, first in 1984 and then again in 1995 and 1996, and our library tells me that his name has appeared in 114 issues since he founded Microsoft in 1976. It is not just that Gates has become the world's richest and most famous businessman. In building Microsoft, he has come to symbolize the software and computing industries. Now he intends to do the same thing in the world of digital media, where information, communication and entertainment will converge in ways that will change how we think, work and live...
...subjects of this newest evangelization, the revolution possible is beyond even Gutenberg's wildest dreams. But who will be evangelized? And who will do the evangelizing? The creation and maintenance of a Website, as compared with a radio or television broadcast, is neither difficult nor expensive. But only the richest of the people on the planet own the necessary equipment to visit such exclusive religious sites as those of the brothers of Christ in the Desert or the Vatican. The rich are at the top of the information mountain; the poor receive the leavings. While mainline denominations and lesser-known...
Let’s face it. The richest university in history can afford to pay its workers more than poverty wages. The proposed raise would cost just a little over $10 million, amounting to no more than 0.3 percent of last year’s endowment return, or 1 percent of the expected payout...
...Global University,” Oct. 14) deserves high praise. His is the first voice out of Harvard to speak out and question why the University with its billions is being miserly in donating to the millions left homeless. Such an uncharitable attitude from the world’s richest academic institution only betrays a callous bias against people far off and thus out of Harvard’s radar...