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...WARREN LEBOW Voluntown, Conn...
...Cave. The world was kept on tenterhooks, and 10,000 people a day, news reports said, showed up to gawk and picnic at the rescue site. After Collins was found dead, 17 days later, songs were written, and the incident became the basis for a musical, the Robert Penn Warren novel The Cave and the acerbic 1951 Billy Wilder movie Ace in the Hole, in which a small-town reporter hits the big time by exploiting a mine-rescue story...
Kinder instructed the planners to write their answers down, not just think about them. He introduced question No. 1: "It's a fun question," he said calmly, a gentle smile on his face. "Assume that you've got all the money you need. Maybe you're not Warren Buffett, but you'll never have to worry about money again. The question is, What would you do with it? How would you live? Think for a moment, then write the answer down." Instantly the room filled with the sound of scribbling...
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...
...confirmed what he had noticed at his élite private high school in Seattle. "The ones who were the wealthiest weren't the most motivated," he says. He has had long talks on the subject with other rich people, like Buffett and Katharine Graham (who inherited the Washington Post). "Warren has often said that you want to give your kids enough so that they don't have to worry, but not so much that they don't feel the need to work and contribute," says Bill. "It's not clear that's not a paradox, but it's a good...