Lumina Lumbers Onto the Higher-Education Scene

By JOHN L. PULLEY

Aiming to widen the road to college, new billion-dollar foundation steps on toes

Among the country's heavyweight charitable foundations -- an elite group

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whose billion-dollar vaults bear such venerable names as Carnegie, Getty, Kellogg, Lilly, MacArthur, Mellon, and

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