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Kessler said he wanted to go into screenwriting, so Lee hired him to write a screenplay. Kessler took him up on the offer and adapted his senior thesis into a screenplay...
...that much: $100 million a year, he says, to his Lawrence Ellison Foundation, which finances medical research, especially into potential cancer cures. His single largest contribution outside the foundation was $5 million, to the University of California Davis Medical Center in 1998. "This isn't about who can write the biggest check. I mean, no one, actually, can write a bigger check than me. The point is results," Ellison says. "There are so many venture capitalists chasing dumb ideas, and philanthropists are just as bad. All they measure is what they have given rather than what the results...
Earlier this year the Barksdales created a $100 million endowment to advance literacy in their home state, and Lee Elementary is among the first of 200 schools that will benefit. The couple didn't just write a check and bask in public praise. First they did more than two years of research--reading studies, visiting schools and interviewing experts--to find the most effective ways to promote reading and writing...
Even the toughest private lenders write off their bad debts. That's what governments--and private lenders--need to do with bad loans they have made. Debt reduction clears the way for new private investment so these countries can begin to grow. No U.S. taxpayer money will go to any private bank...
...WRITE AID Until now the worlds of paper and silicon have been irreconcilably separate. No longer, thanks to a clever doodad from Seiko called the SmartPad ($199). The SmartPad looks like a shmancy executive portfolio, with a seemingly ordinary pad of paper on one side and a port for your Palm PDA on the other. Whatever you write on the pad instantly appears on the screen of your Palm. You can even save your scribblings as an image and e-mail it. For bad handwriting, however, there's still no cure...