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LeBron James The NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist is a past TIME 100 honoree Jay Schottenstein, an Ohio business leader and philanthropist, has supported the translation and elucidation of the Talmud Bavli into English, Hebrew and French. The Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud is now utilized by more than 2 million people worldwide...
...Sgarbi's undoing was Germany's wealthiest woman, industrialist and philanthropist Susanne Klatten. Having already received $8.84 million from Klatten, who owns 12.5% of German carmaker BMW and a majority of chemical firm Altana, and is a married mother of three, Sgarbi tried to blackmail her with a secretly filmed video showing the couple in bed. But instead of sending him the negotiated $17.7 million (down from the $366 million police say he asked for), Klatten sent the police. (See pictures...
...that: institutions of learning. In this way, donations from men like Harkness and Rockefeller are crucial. Rather, the problem lies in an irrational glorification of these ideals—naming opportunities or a demand for unreasonable results, for example—that imposes the values and accomplishments of the philanthropist upon the beneficiary...
Cogan, a prolific Boston-area philanthropist and Harvard donor, is no stranger to university donations. He has served as chair and vice-chair of two Law School capital campaigns and has endowed two professorships in his name, one currently held by University Professor Stephen Greenblatt and Law School Professor John C. Coates...
Lois Pope—philanthropist and founder of the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation—said her foundation tries to give $100,000 every year “to a person who has made a tremendous difference in everyone’s life...