[Am-info] World's richest man tries to hold back 'gathering tempest' with 63m gift

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.11.12 09:34 AM, Erick Andrews typed: ============

>Mr Gates, whose wife Melinda gave birth six weeks ago to their third 
>child, yesterday said
>he was merely "lucky" to have accumulated a bank balance of $43bn. He now 
>wanted to
>give it away. 

   I will believe this when he cuts some charity a check for $42,500,000.



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