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Powerful People Doing Powerful Things

President of Uruguay donates 90 percent of his salary to charity

The president said that the only big item he owns is his VW car, valued at $1,945 dollars. The farmhouse in which he lives in Montevideo is under his wife’s name, Lucía Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary.

"I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less," the president told El Mundo.

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Turning the Cult of Narcissism Against Itself

Girl who was made fun of uses her fame to help charitable organization

She was just an average thirteen-year-old girl, until overnight her awkward dancing in the background of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video made her a target of near-universal derision on the Internet…When Benni Cinkle finally responded to the attention and began answering questions, the hordes anticipating more lulz at her expense did a 180, surprised to themselves interacting with a gracious, humble person with a sense of humor about herself. In the months since, Cinkle’s website, That Girl in Pink, has become a launchpad for her charitable works.