October 12, 2006

Two of a Kind

By Nicole Lewis

The billionaire financier and his wife are planning a big deal — giving away most of their wealth

While driving through Brooklyn one day in the late 1970s, Sanford I. (Sandy) Weill brooded about the trouble

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