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#88699
11/22/2003 4:02 PM
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are the most generous charitable donors in America, Business Week magazine said this week, as the couple gave away or pledged a staggering $23 billion -- more than half of their net worth.
In the magazine's second-annual ranking of the top 50 philanthropists in the United States, the Gates' are worth a net $46 billion -- the rough equivalent of Hungary's entire gross domestic product. With the couple's having donated 54 percent of their net worth, Business Week dubbed them "the reigning royalty of a new class of self-made superphilanthropists."
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#88700
11/22/2003 6:25 PM
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Joined: Mar 2001
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Admin / Code Breaker
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Admin / Code Breaker
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So maybe they aren't as evil as we think.. ...nah 
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#88701
11/22/2003 6:52 PM
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Evil? Absolutely, but in what I consider a good way. I'm a proud member of Bill's evil empire. Seriously, I'm sure it's his wife that drives the giving.
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#88702
11/23/2003 8:45 AM
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Veteran
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quote:
Originally posted by RandyM:
Evil? Absolutely, but in what I consider a good way. I'm a proud member of Bill's evil empire. Seriously, I'm sure it's his wife that drives the giving. it's always like that anyway, you earn it and you wife spends it 
Do you believe in love at first sight,
or should I walk by again?
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