The IMG chairman, who is sole guardian of two South African orphans and is known to many as the dealmaker who dated Padma Lakshmi, was a bit apprehensive about such a trip.

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Two more Aids orphans to join the 10 million already trying to survive in Africa.

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Otherwise, the only two "privileges" arise after death - there is a school for freemen's orphans in Surrey and an almshouse for their widows in south-west London.

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"Lie To Me, " the opening track on a three-disc mother lode of rarities Tom Waits calls Orphans, is two minutes and 10 seconds of pure, unfiltered rock 'n' roll bliss.

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During my semester abroad in Namibia, I interned at a school for orphans and vulnerable children called Hope Initiatives, where I taught students between the ages of two and twenty about a wide range of subjects including History, Math, Science, English and Health Education.

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The two-story complex includes a school and a dormitory that housed about 70 children, many of them orphans, who were asleep.

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