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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (20458)	5/4/2004 10:32:21 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

What a stupid comment, Corrigan. And why haven't you apologized yet for the many lies you've told this thread and others? Liars and cheaters don't win, despite what Cheney-Bush are teaching our children by example.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (20458)	5/9/2004 11:06:07 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

May 9, 2004 THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR'S WIFE In Vast Philanthropy, Kerry's Wife Wields Sway By STEPHANIE STROM When the newly widowed Teresa Heinz took over the stewardship of one of the country's largest philanthropic organizations more than a decade ago, all she had to guide her was a soggy, charred legal pad of handwritten notes that had been found in the debris of the plane that crashed in 1991, killing her husband, Senator H. John Heinz III. Mr. Heinz had been jotting down plans for a sweeping overhaul of the organization that would put it on sounder financial footing by diversifying its holdings out of H.J. Heinz Company shares and changing its management structure. "When Jack died and we had to diversify, I had to learn about everything," recalled Teresa Heinz Kerry, who in 1995 married John Kerry, the Democratic presidential contender, "and I knew nothing about money and investments." Thirteen years later, she is the guiding force behind the Heinz Endowments, which control $1.3 billion in assets and gave away $54.5 million last year. She also runs the Heinz Family Philanthropies, an umbrella for a $70 million family foundation she created after her husband's death and the two non-tax-exempt charitable trusts that finance it. As a result, the city of Pittsburgh is in many ways a monument to Mrs. Heinz Kerry's philanthropy. It is home to more environmentally sound buildings, certified as green buildings, than any other city in the country, thanks in large part to the Heinz Endowments. The city's riverfronts are undergoing a renaissance, led by the endowments. Its school administration has changed in response to the endowments' concerns. Even the look of a bridge over the Allegheny River bears the endowments' influence. nytimes.com