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CHOICE BITS; Excerpts from recent Editor's Choice blog entries on CrainsCleveland.com.(Briefs)
Crain's Cleveland Business, February, 2007
They throw money around, in a good way * Two well-known Northeast Ohio business leaders made the latest installment of the Slate 60, a listing of the largest U.S. charitable donations in 2006. Both Peter B. Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corp., and Monte Ahuja, founder of Transtar Industries, with his wife, Usha, landed on the list for pledges made last year.
Mr. Lewis "pledged $80 million - of which $12 million has been paid - to Princeton University in New Jersey for creative and performing-arts programs,'' according to Slate.com, which compiles the list. "He also paid $3.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation in New York. In addition, he pledged $3 million - of which $600,000 has been paid - to Fountain House, a New York...
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