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Ted Turner

announced plans to donate $1 billion to the United Nations for humanitarian (i.e., not administrative) programs in a move he hoped would encourage philanthropy in other wealthy individuals.


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Tung Chee-hwa,1997 People in the NewsMike Tyson
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