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  • That has to be a task worthy of some philanthropist's largess.

    The Decline of Human Rights Bret Stephens 2012

  • The philanthropist's gambit underscores how amazingly popular Mr. Gehry's playful, irreverent architecture has become in recent years, and how hard it is to find anyone helming a major municipal building project who would dare to hire someone else to execute a commission.

    An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure Joe Queenan 2011

  • Joan Davidson's annual shad bake at Midwood, her Columbia County estate overlooking the Hudson River in Germantown, N.Y., about 100 miles north of New York City, is a reunion of 400 or so of the philanthropist's closest friends and favorite politicians.

    An Essential Shad Bake 2010

  • Surely the planet would breathe a sign of appreciation as tons of waste would be averted from landfills (and the ocean would be spared a mountain of balloons), and I would also venture to guess that the famous philanthropist's children will one day thank his millions of fans for leaving a lasting and sustaining legacy for the truly best of their father's memory.

    Matt Petersen: What if MJ Fans Left a Legacy Rather Than Flowers 2009

  • Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has been convicted of plundering the philanthropist's nearly $200 million fortune.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009 2009

  • Whatever a philanthropist's goals, it would be arrogant and foolhardy not to learn from the field about which approaches work and don't work.

    Paul Brest: Top-Down and Bottom-Up 2008

  • But there may be a lesson in the indictment of the late philanthropist's son and a lawyer close to the family's affairs: It can be risky to hand off financial responsibilities even to someone you think you can trust.

    How to Ensure 2007

  • Microsoft's Bill Gates will put on his philanthropist's hat to take part in a panel on using science for the global good.

    Gathering Of The Titans 2007

  • Why is Charles philanthropist's side, his charitable side is not more widely reported, and how much has he involved the children in that side of him that Diana got all the credit for, but he is a very charitable person from what I understand.

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2001 2001

  • Such a list conveys the extraordinary range and specificity of Cobbett's idea of system, and suggests too the scope of his own countersystematic imagination, which could apprehend with equal seriousness and anxiety the sublime terror of Napoleon's "general system of conquest" (Register 18 [1810], 636) and the quaint incursions of the philanthropist's "child-bed-linen system" (Register 16 [1809], 113).

    William Cobbett and the Politics of System 1997

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