World Reacts to Bill And Melinda Gates' Divorce
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Bill and Melinda Gates’s divorce could rock the world of charityBill and Melinda Gates, the leaders of the world’s most venerated and powerful philanthropy, said on Monday that they were getting a divorce — an earthquake moment in the nonprofit sector.
The billionaire couple sets the strategic vision for the $50 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which they co-founded and which spends more than $5 billion a year on causes like US education and worldwide disease eradication. Their divorce potentially has enormous implications for their work.
The Gateses are America’s most famous billionaire philanthropists, with the power and profile...
From the Right
The most savage memes about Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorceThey opened the online flood-Gates.
When Bill and Melinda Gates announced they were getting divorced Monday, the ever-sympathetic social-media masses were quick to pay their respects — with a tsunami of mocking memes.
The philanthropist couple had tweeted the shocking news in a joint statement on their separate accounts yesterday afternoon.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” they wrote.
The announcement concluded, “We continue to share a belief in that mission and will...
From the Center
Empathy and Appreciation for Bill and Melinda GatesIn the current media environment where bitter social media mobs, desperate-for-clicks news outlets and holier-than-thou pundits pile on to criticize and make fun of the Gates, let me take a different stance.
Bill and Melinda Gates appear to be divorcing after 27 years of marriage. Divorces are generally very difficult and personal, and it can only be worse if it becomes a public media frenzy. Just because people are famous or wealthy does not mean that they don’t have feelings and should not be treated with humanity.
Most Americans are...
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