Sylvester James Gates, Jr. 2011 National Medal of Science to Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

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James Crowley arrested Gates for disorderly conduct after a verbal altercation.

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When Bill Gates, James Dimon, Nouriel Roubini and Mick Jagger choose to spend five days in the same small Swiss town, what they crave is influence.

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Clive James has said that when Rupert Murdoch arrives at the pearly gates he will come brandishing a copy of the Australian Literary Review.

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But it might merely give James Barksdale, at Netscape, a better chance of displacing Bill Gates as the man we love to hate.

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Gates then selected a successor to retiring Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway who was likely to be more tractable in deliberations about future military needs.

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Gates, 63, is also a member of the Iraq Working Group headed by former Secretary of State James Baker, another Bush family loyalist, and former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton (R-IN).

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