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Buffett On Philanthropy: 'It'd Be Madness Not To Do It'

Posted 05.21.2012

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A group of billionaires met to talk about money -- not earning it, but how to best give it away. Thirty-five billionaires who have handed over a m...

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Modern Family, Rockefeller Style

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Susan Rockefeller, Mission of Mermaids, Rockefeller, Bid to Save the Earth, Christie's Bid to Save the Earth, Ocean Conservation, David Rockefeller, Impact, Impact News

When I first met Sue Rockefeller at a social function, she was simply a person standing next to me with a wine glass.

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Wealth, Weddings, Poverty and Philanthropy -- A Weekend Rolling in American Philanthropy

Maxim Thorne | Posted 06.03.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Carnegie, Higher Education, Philanthropists, Rockefeller, Yale, Politics News

Why is John and Heather's wedding and what John's studying now important? Why is remembering the philanthropic investment in transforming and liberalizing education so important?

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Rockefeller Impostor's Murder Hearing To Conclude Tuesday

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 03.25.2012

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ALHAMBRA, Calif. — A German man who masqueraded as a Rockefeller and assumed many other identities was ordered to stand trial Tuesday in a Calif...

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Will Republicans Shut Down the FAA Again to Help Delta's Union Busting?

Dave Johnson | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Rockefeller, Faa, Union Busting, Unions, Labor, Video, Delta FAA, Delta Airlines Unions, Delta Airlines Faa, Delta Unions Faa, Union Busting Airlines, Politics News

Once again Republicans are ready to shut down the FAA to help a union-busting effort by Delta Airlines.

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Key Senator Says Another FAA Shutdown Possible

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Video, Faa, Rockefeller, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Travel, Airlines, Delta Airlines, FAA Shutdown, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration is possible because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that's holding...

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The Old Integrity

Robert Koehler | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Immigration, God, Iraq, War on Terror, Afghanistan, American Empire, Integrity, Rockefeller, Politics News

We're reeling toward our ecological and political comeuppance in a state of narcissistic denial; there is too little public seriousness about the issues that face us.

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Next Generation Wealth -- Creating Pathways for Armies of Good

April Rudin | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Nexus Global Youth Summit, Wealthy, Youth, Search for Common Ground, United Nations, Kluge, Green, John Kluge, Howard-Milstein, Philanthropy, Wealth, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Bronfman., Activism, Green Technology, Pew Research Center, Rockefeller, Giving, Impact News

Attending the Nexus Summit were progeny of first generation entrepreneurs whose parents have created and sold firms to large conglomerates and their family has become instantly wealthy by a single event.

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WATCH: Kanye And Jay-Z Play MoMA

Posted 07.11.2011

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Kanye West and Jay-Z performed last night at MoMA's 2011 "Party In The Garden Benefit," which honored Patricia Phelps De Cisneros, Mimi Haas, Jill Kra...

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New Breed Of Student Entrepreneurs Want To Do Good From The Start

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Some of the world's most business-savvy college students flocked to Wall Street last Saturday to pitch startups they dreamt up in their co...

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Nonprofits Get Creative to Keep the Donations Coming

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many previously flush donors have been forced to cut back on their generosity. Asking the remaining contributors to dig deeper is not the answer in most cases. What's a nonprofit to do?

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Can India Move From Gilded Age to Progressive Era?

Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Progressive Era, Gilded Age, India, Social Change, America, Mellon, Jayant Sinha, Panic of 1893, JP Morgan, Carnegie, Financial TImes, Flagler, Rockefeller, Ashutosh Varshney, Mark Twain, World News

India has, in the past, overcome apocalyptic prognosis regarding its survival as a single democratic nation. Hopefully, the Asian elephant can now work its way out of its own Gilded Age.

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Plutocracy: The Rich Elite and the Rest of Us

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guistra, Carnegie, Gates, Slim, Rockefeller, Getty, Buffett, Plutocracy, Business News

The controversy over the disparity between the rich and the rest of us has hit the covers of two emblematic fountains of ideas; The Economist and The Atlantic Monthly.

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Senator Wants FCC To 'End' Fox News, MSNBC

Posted 05.25.2011

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During a committee meeting on Wednesday about television retransmission consent, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) veered away from his prepared remarks ...

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Climate Action: Part 2 - Down to Business

William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last year, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication conducted a survey of American attitudes on climate change. In one question, it asked who ...

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Why Louis Brandeis Matters: Supreme Court Justice Fought Oligarchy, 'Bigness'

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011

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During the past hundred years, [The New Republic] has continued to champion the principles that made Brandeis the greatest constitutional philosopher ...

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Faith's Favorites: July Juniors

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether it's Christmas in July, a vacation, or even early back-to-school, this month is a great time to shop for the youngsters in your life at New York's boutiques.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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Don't Let Lawmakers Undermine the Clean Air Act: It Saves Lives

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Lead, Lisa Jackson, Rockefeller, Acid Rain, Epa, Asthma, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News

A handful of lawmakers have been trying to block the EPA from regulating pollution. This is largely a political maneuver -- an effort to drain away support for passing a comprehensive clean energy bill.

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Lifetime Movie Proves Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't believe truth is stranger than fiction? Just watch the new "Lifetime" original movie Who Is Clark Rockefeller? and you will.

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Jay Rockefeller: Obama 'Beginning To Be Not Believable To Me'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Coal, Climate, West Virginia, Obama Administration, Rockefeller, Obama, Democrats, Coal, Politics News

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) lashed out Friday against the Obama Administration's stance on environmental policy and coal power, an economic stapl...

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Toyota's Powerful Friends In Washington

AP | SHARON THEIMER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota, Toyota Lobbyists, Lobbyists, Rockefeller, Jay Rockefeller, Rockefeller Toyota, Jay Rockefeller Toyota, Toyota Congress, Toyota Legislation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that...

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Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Muriel Siebert, The Dakota, Emily Post, Robert Moses, The Berkshire, Tennis, The East River Drive, River House, Town and Country Magazine, Vincent Astor, The Osborne, Debutante, Rockefeller, Bridge, William De Rham, Jewish, Vanderbilt, One Sutton Place South, Discrimination, Whitney, The River Club, E. T. Williams, Wasp, Augusta Owen Patterson, Co-Op Board Bias, 10 Gracie Square, African Americans, Martin A. Siegel, L James B. Stewart, Latinos, Robin Duke, Angier Biddle Duke, New York News

Except for having no golf course, the River Club at 447 East 52nd Street is as close to a country club as one could find in the middle of New York City.

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Advice for the Unknown Lottery Winner

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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After having overcome trillion-to-one odds, the idea of running through the money would seem silly to most winners. However, studies shows that 90% of people blow all their money within five years of winning the jackpot.

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Message To Leadership: Rockefeller Re-States His Opposition To Triggers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rockefeller Public Plan, Rockefeller Triggers, Leadership Health Care, Rockefeller, Obama White House, Triggers Obama, Politics News

One of the Senate's foremost champions of the public insurance option re-asserted on Friday his opposition to a compromise approach that would establi...

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