July 7, 2006
Oracle Founder Reneges on $115-Million Gift to Harvard; Ex-Publisher at Routledge Lands Deanship at Cooper Union
HOW TO STAY RICH: While the world's second-richest man, Warren Buffett, was making headlines last week with his $31-billion gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's 15th-richest man was gaining another kind of attention.
Pulling out of his promise of a $115-million gift to Harvard University, Lawrence J. Ellison, 61, founder of Oracle Corporation, has quashed plans for the Ellison Institute for World Health.
The institute, which would have studied ways to
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