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  • December 30, 2008

    The woman who built the Gates foundation

    ...reform, which led to a rebranding as the Gates Learning Foundation. By 2000, as Mr Gates allocated many more billions to philanthropy...helped the entity merge with the separate William H. Gates Foundation. Run by Mr Gates's father... By Andrew Jack
  • January 15, 2007

    Industry veterans: Refreshingly contrarian

    ...member of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, taking 297th place in the latest rundown, trailing behind a certain William H. Gates III, as Forbes colourfully describes him. In his fourth book, Mr Fisher has broken down his investment philosophy into... By Steve Johnson
  • December 16, 2008

    The foundation builder

    ...programmes, which led to a rebranding as the Gates Learning Foundation. By 2000, as Gates allocated many more billions to philanthropy...new premises and a merger with the separate William H. Gates Foundation. Run by Gates’s father out... By Andrew Jack
  • March 10, 2006

    The casual-trousered philanthropists

    ...Gates’s philanthropy: his father, William H. Gates. Bill Gates Snr, a successful lawyer...his son about what to support. The William H. Gates Foundation began in his basement in...At the same time, he merged the William H. Gates Foundation with the Gates Learning... By Andrew Jack
  • September 19, 2007

    Perspectives: The six books that shaped my view of technology

    ...claiming these are a definitive top six, just my top six and an idiosyncratic six at that. I haven’t even included William H Rodger’s brilliant 1969 account of the rise of IBM, Think, which first sparked my interest in Big Blue, because it deals...its armies of programmers, it was not. Microsoft, however, or more precisely the man at the heart of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is the principal subject of Accidental Empires, tellingly subtitled “How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make their Millions... By Alan Cane
  • December 1, 2008

    Jim Jones appointed national security adviser

    ...adviser, including Brent Scowcroft under Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, and Colin Powell under Ronald Reagan. One key issue...is how to deal with the heavyweights – particularly Robert Gates at the Pentagon and Hillary Clinton at the state department...estate in the basement. According to Mr Rothkopf, George H.W. Bush reinvigorate the role by appointing Gen Scowcroft as an...world, and knowledge of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. William Cohen, the Clinton-era Republican defence secretary who... By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
  • January 13, 2008

    Living donors top US charity list

    ...in 2007 Donors Total donated or pledged William Barron Hilton $1200m Jon M. Sr. and Karen H. Huntsman $750m T. Denny Sanford...John W. Kluge $400m Sanford I. and Joan H. Weill $328.5m Michael R. Bloomberg...charity – mainly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His gift inspired others to think... By Lauren Foster in New York
  • July 29, 2005

    Optical delusions

    ...Paul Valery ART SINCE 1900: Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Thames and Hudson £45, 704 pages ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane...By contrast, the score for Matisse, whose “Le Bonheur de Vivre” is acknowledged as the canvas that “opens the gates of 20th-century art” - supposedly the subject of this book - is 24; for Malevich and Kandinsky, twin pioneers of abstraction, under...Harmony in Red” and Chagall the seminal “The Dead Man”. But 1908 is heralded as the year that art historian “William Worringer publishes Abstraction and Empathy”; none of the paintings is mentioned. By the 1960s, with conceptualism on... By Jackie Wullschlager
  • July 30, 2005

    Optical delusions

    ...19. By contrast, the score for Matisse, whose "Le Bonheur de Vivre" is acknowledged as the canvas that "opens the gates of 20th-century art" - supposedly the subject of this book - is 24; for Malevich and Kandinsky, twin pioneers of abstraction...made "Harmony in Red" and Chagall the seminal "The Dead Man". But 1908 is heralded as the year that art historian "William Worringer publishes Abstraction and Empathy"; none of the paintings is mentioned. By the 1960s, with conceptualism on...critic ART SINCE 1900: Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Thames and Hudson £45, 704 pages ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane... By Jackie Wullschlager
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