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Auto dealer, philanthropist John Hern dies in Arizona
2013-11-25 23:15:05| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
It's a good bet that John Hern would like what's going on on Poulsbo's former auto row: Children acting and singing in his expansive Courtesy Ford building-turned-rehearsal hall.
Philanthropist, industrialist Dov Lautman dies aged 77
2013-11-24 06:57:10| Apparel - Topix.net
Dov Lautman, Israeli industrialist, philanthropist and Israeli Prize laureate seen at his office in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2010.
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Philanthropist, disability advocate, Kate Pew Wolters to receive the Education Advocacy Award
2013-10-09 02:03:27| Furniture - Topix.net
The Kent Intermediate Association of School Boards Thursday, Oct. 10, will honor philanthropist and disability advocate Kate Pew Wolters with the Education Advocacy Award for her efforts to improve the lives and achievement of students.
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Philanthropist Joe Segal: A passion for helping
2013-05-20 08:12:16| Electronics - Topix.net
Joe Segal at his regular lunch spot, the Yew Restaurant inside the Four Seasons Hotel on Georgia Street in Vancouver, B.C. Thursday, May 15, 2013.
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Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: 'We're trying to buy time for the world to wake up'
2013-04-12 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates of the White House, in protest at the building of a 3,500km oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Amid the hundreds of placard-carrying protesters stood a somewhat incongruous figure in a suit Jeremy Grantham, a 74-year-old fund manager. "What we are trying to do is buy time," he told reporters. "Buy time for the world to wake up." Grantham...