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Washington Network Watch: Learning from Bill

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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Bradley W. Bloch

Obama's State Department needs to have a core of career diplomats, yes, but it should also draw heavily from the new generation of bottom-line entrepreneurial leaders.

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Let's Get Creative: Why Not Ask Bill Gates to be Secretary of Education?

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

Bill Gates is not considered partisan nor ideological nor beholden to any interest group, so it would difficult to deny his proposals by raising suspicions on any of those grounds.

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Warren Buffett Donates $2 Billion In Berkshire Hathaway Shares To Charities

DealBook | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

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Warren Buffett has given away 512,169 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to three charitable foundations, in keeping with his plan to give awa...

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Help Me Write a Book

Michael Kinsley | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

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Michael Kinsley

The notion that capitalism, which is all about self-interest, can be amended somehow to be more about helping others -- and still be capitalist -- strikes many as hopelessly Pollyannaish and bizarre.

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Melinda Gates On Dating The Boss, Being Friends With Bono and Buffett, And Donating All That Money

Fortune | Patricia Sellers | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

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Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working...

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Gates Foundation, Chinese Government Launch AIDS-Prevention Partnership

Wall Street Journal | Marilyn Chase | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tomorrow will launch an AIDS-prevention partnership with the Chinese government, an unusual approach that unders...

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Gates Foundation To Start $100 Mil Fund For Unorthodox Approaches To Health

Wall Street Journal | Marilyn Chase | Posted 10.09.2007 | Business

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today will start a $100 million fund to nurture unorthodox approaches to global health, inviting scientists to b...

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