Special report | A survey of the new rich
Saint Bill
How to give away riches beyonds the dreams of avarice
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“PEOPLE would see me at cocktail parties and wonder if I was going to come up and talk to them about tuberculosis. I was the TB guy.” Listening to Bill Gates holding forth about vaccinating the world's poor, it soon becomes clear that he is not doing this merely to polish an image tarnished by the antitrust action against his company, Microsoft. He could have done that with a lot less money.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Saint Bill”
From the June 16th 2001 edition
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