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Turner issued a challenge: rank the biggest givers instead of the biggest getters. Last week Microsoft's online magazine Slate took him up, launching the Slate 60, a list of the largest charitable donations in the country by families or individuals gathered from publicly available sources. These are numbers, and deeds, well worth highlighting. Last year Americans gave a record $143.9 billion to charity, with more than 70% of households contributing. The richest one-half of one percent of households were responsible for 11% of all giving...
...Slate 60, which will become an annual event, is a work in progress that follows some rather arbitrary rules, and new details are coming in daily. (Slate will publish an updated version in January.) The list omits anonymous gifts, which means at least 12 very big-ticket donors are missing from its 1996 ranks. It also excludes gifts by corporate foundations rather than individuals, and any gifts less than $1 million. Judging by a single year's giving, rather than by a lifetime of charity, causes distortions too. Microsoft head Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, for instance...
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...with a smart Web-based service that mixes the highest technology on the Internet with well-thought-out content. The result is a service that, even with a 28.8-kbps modem, looks well worth paying for. This fall the network offers over 20 "shows" that include Michael Kinsley's Slate magazine, an online auto-shopping service and a terrific electronic travel agent. (Microsoft...
...issue include some familiar names and some unfamiliar juxtapositions: Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem offer the President some free advice; fallen campaign strategist Dick Morris urges Clinton to stick to the center in his second term; playwright Wendy Wasserstein has some light-hearted tips for the First Lady; Slate editor Michael Kinsley puts Clinton's victory in historical per-spective; and investigative reporter James Stewart explores how scandal could derail Clinton's second term...