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...perhaps some of us at Harvard are already too far in bed with Microsoft to be truly objective. After all, who is our wealthiest and possibly most famous non-graduate? Bill Gates is, and who among us doesn't want to emulate his success just a little? (Whenever I told people in the "real world" that I was taking time off from Harvard to work for a software company, half the time they asked if I was going to drop out and become the next Bill Gates.) I hear the Microsoft CFO is a Harvard Business School alum who recently...
...prosperous did the company become that even during the Depression, it could successfully launch two expensive new magazines--FORTUNE in 1930 and LIFE, the most popular magazine in American history, in 1936. By the end of World War II, Time Inc. was one of the largest and wealthiest publishing enterprises in the world...
What made the name of Franklin Roosevelt so big, so black, so bold, was the fact that the wealthiest single nation of the modern world had committed itself as never before to one man in a do-or-die attempt to pull itself out of a deep, dark economic hole...
While America should rightly applaud itself for the advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call...
...other hand, they also include self-made giants such as William Gates, who at age 41, easily won the slot as the wealthiest individual in America and the world with, a fortune worth $39.8 billion...