May 17, 2007

'Time': Three Major Donors Make 'Influential' List

Several philanthropists are among Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world (May 14). Among them: Paul Allen, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey. Also making the list are two leaders of nonprofit institutions: Drew Gilpin Faust, who in July will become the first female president of Harvard University, and Michael J. Fox, whose charity seeks to assist people with Parkinson's disease.

The magazine asked people who knew those being honored to write about what