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...Sophia in ’t Veld, the Dutch MEP leading the probe, said the BRG letter raised questions that were “at the heart of the things we want to know” and that MEPs would discuss its contents with NSO....
...At the same time, Buffett’s decision to donate the fortune he has tied up in Berkshire shares to charities, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named...
...MacKenzie Scott has also announced that she will be donating to Harambee....
...Melinda French Gates has already distributed more than $65.6bn in grants through the Gates Foundation to various different causes....
...At the start of F Scott Fitzgerald’s dark novel, Tender is the Night, the scenes of life on the sunny French beach begin by being idyllic....
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...The idea is similar to Radical Candor author Kim Scott’s idea of the “rock star” worker: a high performer who favours gradual growth over quickly rising through the ranks....
...Albanese’s Labor party secured victory in the nation’s general election over the weekend, defeating Scott Morrison’s conservative Liberal-National coalition....
...Sophia here, filling in for Isabel this week....
...Scott Dussault began his job during the pandemic....
...Scott’s giving had been a “galvanising” factor for philanthropy, Suzman said, but “it’s not our model”....
...In some ways Scott has been as radical a philanthropist as Bill Gates and his former wife Melinda French were at the start of the century, with their strategic focus and high volume of giving....
...Led by the notable example of MacKenzie Scott, the wealthy and generous are increasingly anxious to accelerate their spending....
...Melinda now joins Laurene Powell Jobs and MacKenzie Scott, formerly Bezos, in a unique club: they are tech billionaires’ former spouses who are suddenly unbound and free to chart their own philanthropic...
...Liberal groups “have been doing this for 40 years and they’re eating our lunch,” said Scott Shepard, of the National Center for Public Policy Research, which filed 22 of the conservative proposals....
...Scott and Sandberg are 51, and Chan just 36....
...Depending on the terms of any divorce settlement, Melinda could immediately rival Scott, whose fortune is put by Forbes at $60bn, for influence in the philanthropy world in her own right....
...But things have changed: in 2010 he joined with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates to create the Giving Pledge: to date, 231 philanthropists from 28 countries have signed....
...Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, and MacKenzie Scott, finalised their divorce in 2019. The couple had worked closely together in the early days of the ecommerce company....
...Murdoch has far fewer resources than reform-minded philanthropists such as Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs, or big donors like Charles Koch and Miriam Adelson who blur the lines...
...Plummer had an excuse: he was director Ridley Scott’s first choice for Getty before Spacey was considered. And he didn’t need a truckful of make-up to play a mean old miser....
...leasing of federal lands for oil, gas and coal — something Mr Biden promised on the campaign trail — to follow swiftly.Such a ban would reduce US oil production by up to 4 per cent a year, according to Scott...
...China contributed about $85m, less than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK and Rotary International....
...Mr Trump’s move was also condemned by Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and billionaire head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
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