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...battled bravely against my quick-witted and Republican mother-in-law. While Kinsley and I both contribute to this magazine, he tends to get a full page or more, while I get a modest two columns. And when he left old media to go to Microsoft, where he founded Slate, an online magazine www.slate.com that transmitted its first bits seven months ago, pundits everywhere interpreted the event as a sign that serious journalism was finally coming to the Web. When I launched the Netly News six months before Slate, one of the New York City papers mentioned my modest efforts...
...party. Some Republicans are leery of re-electing Gingrich unless he has been exonerated by the Ethics Committee, which has already dismissed more than 70 of the allegations against him. The reprimand, reportedly negotiated by Gingrich?s attorneys when he agreed to admit violations, hardly constitutes a clean slate, but Gingrich and his supporters will do their best to dismiss its importance. One factor in his favor: the outrage many Republicans feel over the prospect that Gingrich might lose his job over behavior that, while clearly wrong, looks no worse than that of the President and his party. In addition...
Turner issued a challenge: rank the biggest givers instead of the biggest getters. Last week Microsoft's online magazine Slate took him up, launching the Slate 60, a list of the largest charitable donations in the country by families or individuals gathered from publicly available sources. These are numbers, and deeds, well worth highlighting. Last year Americans gave a record $143.9 billion to charity, with more than 70% of households contributing. The richest one-half of one percent of households were responsible for 11% of all giving...
...Slate 60, which will become an annual event, is a work in progress that follows some rather arbitrary rules, and new details are coming in daily. (Slate will publish an updated version in January.) The list omits anonymous gifts, which means at least 12 very big-ticket donors are missing from its 1996 ranks. It also excludes gifts by corporate foundations rather than individuals, and any gifts less than $1 million. Judging by a single year's giving, rather than by a lifetime of charity, causes distortions too. Microsoft head Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, for instance...
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