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| | washingtonpost.com: Melinda Gates Joins Washington Post Co. as Director |
 | | Melinda Gates, a 40-year-old Texan, joins other prominent Post Co. board members, including interactive shopping guru Barry Diller, former White House budget director Alice M. Rivlin and Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman whose wealth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $43 billion. |
 | | The Washington Post Co. elected Melinda French Gates -- a former Microsoft Corp. executive and wife of founder Bill Gates -- to its board yesterday, adding the spouse of the world's richest person to a 10-member board that already includes the world's second-richest person, Warren E. Buffett. |
 | | Melinda Gates also was on the board of trustees of her alma mater, Duke University, where she earned a computer science degree, and has been an adviser to ThirdAge Inc., an online content company that caters to baby boomers. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A9709-2004Sep9?language=printer (748 words) |
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