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An Emerging Legacy
One year ago, the nonprofit world changed forever. In a stunning announcement, Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire investor from Omaha, said that he would give roughly 85 percent of his vast wealth to charity.
The gift, worth $43.5-billion at the end of 2006, went to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, three charitable funds operated by Mr. Buffett's...