When Gail McGovern was picked to head the American Red Cross in 2008, the organization was reeling. Her predecessor had been fired after impregnating a subordinate. The charity was running an annual deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The ranking of salaries at 497 colleges contained some expected names among the top 10 earners in 2013, including Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger, the longest-serving president of an Ivy League university. Mr. Bollinger’s compensation totaled $4.6 million, which the university said included $1.17 million in base pay, an incentive payment of $940,000, use of a university residence, and other deferred compensation, placing him at No. 1 on the list.

Henry M. Rowan, an industrialist whose $100 million gift to Glassboro State College in New Jersey in 1992 — now Rowan University — was the biggest individual cash gift to any public college or university at the time, died on Wednesday in Bucks County, Pa. He was 92.

The Museum of Modern Art has announced one of the largest monetary gifts in its history, a $40 million unrestricted donation from the Chicago hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, whose name will now adorn one of the museum’s best-known buildings, the 1964 black steel-and-glass East Wing, designed by Philip Johnson.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives” — holdings currently worth more than $45 billion — to charitable purposes.

Many warmly greeted the news that the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, planned to put 99 percent of their company stock into a limited liability corporation that would be devoted to philanthropic causes, while being able to lobby Congress and make profitable investments. But if the reader comments on The Times’ article about the announcement are an indication, there’s a good deal of skepticism too. Mainly, critics ask, should rich people be allowed to avoid taxes and then decide what causes their money will support?

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the organization that the Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, introduced this week, has three important letters at the end of its name: L.L.C.

A group called the Global Energy Balance Network, led by scientists and created by Coca-Cola, announced this week that it was shutting down after months of pressure from public health authorities who said that the group’s mission was to play down the link between soft drinks and obesity.

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