After Billu Bhaiyya TED TURNER comes to town

After Gates, Ted Turner comes to townAdd to Clippings
PERCY FERNANDEZ
[ Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:50:14 amINDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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NEW DELHI: He’s been called the “sister of charity”, has been the husband of Jane Fonda, and on the way to it all, founded a couple of wildly successful ventures like CNN and Cartoon Network .

The stardust is yet to settle after Bill Gates’ glitzy visit and already the Capital is playing host to another apostle of capitalism, Ted Turner. Like Gates, Turner makes money in the morning and gives it away in the evening.

Turner is in town this week along with the UN Foundation Board of Directors to meet a host of government, business and NGO leaders, look at UN projects in the country and, importantly, host public forums to promote public-private partnerships.

Ted Turner is the founder of CNN and Cartoon Network, and chairman of UN Foundation, created in 1998 with Ted Turner's $1 billion gift to support United Nations' causes.

Ted stunned everyone into silence in 1998 when he went to Larry King and unexpectedly announced a gift of $1billion, giving no details, and saying things like "I always loved that Coca-Cola commercial where all the kids got on the mountaintop and sang 'We are the world.'
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