Top 10 charitable gifts decline as recession bites
Knight Ridder notes the 10 largest individuals gifts to US charity in 2001 totaled 4.6 billion, down from 11.07 billion the previous year. Bill Gates led with 2 billion to the Gates Foundation. other top donors include Jim Stowers, Gordon Moore, Bill Coleman, Ted Turner, Lucille Beeson, Henry Fuller, Jeanne Gaffe, and Peter Lewis, reflecting economy driven reductions.
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Chronicle of Philanthropy
Stacy Palmer
Microsoft
Bill Gates
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jim Stowers
American Century Mutual-Fund Company
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Intel
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BEA Systems
Bill Coleman
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Ted Turner
Turner Broadcasting System
Lucille Stewart Beeson
Henry Melville Fuller
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Peronist Duhalde Named Argentina's New President
Congress approved Eduardo Duhalde, a Peronist leader, as Argentina's fifth president in two weeks to finish the term of Fernando de la Rua. The vote was 262 to 21 with 18 abstentions amid street clashes and heavy police protection in Buenos Aires as protests marked a volatile political and economic crisis.
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Argentina
Congress
Eduardo Duhalde
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Rapper Lil Buddy charged in Rosemount bank robbery
Andre R. Locke known as Lil Buddy was charged in federal court with entering Vermillion State Bank in Rosemount wearing a ski mask and a handgun. He fled in a stolen blue Audi, crashed into a tree after a police chase, and was arrested.
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Lil Buddy
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Vermillion State Bank
Rosemount
Gary Kalstabakken
Marines search Afghan compound for Omar tracking effort
About 200 U S Marines searched a former Taliban and al Qaida compound in Helmand province as part of the hunt for Mullah Omar. Another 100 Marines flew in by helicopter while U S Special Forces may assist with airstrikes and tactics.
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U.S
al-Qaida
Afghanistan
Mullah Mohammed Omar
Kandahar
Helmand
Brad Lowell
U.S. Central Command
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Hamid Karzai
Omar
Karzai
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Pakistan
Tora Bora
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Mazar- e-Sharif
Four dead in Clarksville apartment fire after New Year party
In Clarksville Tennessee an early morning blaze at Ashland Park killed four tenants who had slept after a New Year’s Eve party. Two others escaped and were treated for smoke inhalation. The building housed 12 units with 10 occupied. The cause is under investigation. In Brewster Ohio a separate house fire killed a pregnant woman and two children while three younger siblings were hospitalized.
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Clarksville
Ray Williams
Ashland Park
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Nashville
Ohio
Brewster
Dale Starcher
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