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Re:Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000 by ehsanu1 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @01:23PM (#2970427)
That list is slightly outdated, missing the $10b endowment for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (endowed by its namesake).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sci...

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Re:Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000 by mahmud on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @07:55PM (#2972044)
King Abdullah's is not a donation or an endowment. It's a drop in the bucket; the royal family giving to the people less than a fraction of one percent of what they looted from the country, and its wealth.
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Re:Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000 by bostonpete on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @02:11PM (#2970670)
An endowment of a public university by a king seems like a far cry from a "private donation" (which that list presents) to me...
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Re:Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000 by threpinatoy on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @01:33PM (#2970479)
Does a large endowment incentivize murder?
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Re:Bill Dietrich gives CMU $250,000,000 by sp332 on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:47PM (#2971103)
I'm sure the document has a clause which invalidates the donation if they murder him for the money.
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