May 7, 2009
Talking Back to Bill Gates: Do His Grants Matter?
Photo courtesy of the Microsoft Corp.
Bill Gates is co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Photo courtesy of the Microsoft Corp.
Bill Gates is co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
During a recent morning in the Tenleytown neighborhood here, about 700 students at Woodrow Wilson High School meandered into an auditorium to be part of an unusual experiment in philanthropy.
Slowly finding their seats, the rowdy students settled down as a short video of the MTV celebrity Sway appeared on the pull-down movie screen at the front of the room.
Sway, a hip-hop musician and correspondent for MTV News, explained that the billionaire Bill Gates had asked the
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