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Investor Warren Buffett (R) and Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates (L) appear together for a town hall style meeting with business students broadcast by financial television network CNBC at Columbia University in New York, November 12, 2009.

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  1. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (L) listens to former U.S. President Bill Clinton as he testifies at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2010.
  2. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and Bill Gates testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, March 10, 2010.
  3. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates (L) testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, March 10, 2010.
  4. Former President Bill Clinton, right, and Bill Gates, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on global health.
  5. Former President Bill Clinton, right, and Bill Gates, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on global health.
  6. Former President Bill Clinton, right, and Bill Gates testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on global health.
  7. Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, right, and Salida Capital CEO Courtenay Wolfe are interviewed before lunch Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, in New York. Salida Capital, a Canadian investment firm, paid $1.68 million last year to win lunch with the billionaire investor, whose annual charity lunch auctions benefit the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to San Francisco's homeless and poor.
  8. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, addresses The Women's Conference 2008 in Long Beach, California in this October 22, 2008, file photo. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. shareholders approved the number two U.S. railroad company's takeover by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., clearing the way for billionaire investor Buffett's largest acquisition to be completed on February 12, 2010. Berkshire is buying the 77.4 percent of Burlington Northern that it did not already own. The cash-and-stock transaction was valued at $26.4 billion, or $100 per share, and valued all Burlington Northern at about $34 billion. Picture taken October 22, 2008.
  9. Investor Warren Buffett gestures during an interview prior to a special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Berkshire shareholders have approved splitting the company's Class B shares 50-for-1 as part of the company's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  10. Investor Warren Buffett gestures during an interview prior to a special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Berkshire shareholders have approved splitting the company's Class B shares 50-for-1 as part of the company's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  11. Investor Warren Buffett gestures during an interview prior to a special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Berkshire shareholders have approved splitting the company's Class B shares 50-for-1 as part of the company's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  12. Investor Warren Buffett gestures during an interview prior to a special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Berkshire shareholders have approved splitting the company's Class B shares 50-for-1 as part of the company's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  13. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates testifies at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2010.
  14. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates face news photographers as they prepare to testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2010.
  15. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) listens to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2010.
  16. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (2nd R) and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (2nd L) pose with U.S. Sen. John Kerry (R) and Sen. Richard Lugar before they testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2010.

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