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Melinda Gates

Powerful Women of the Decade 2000 - 2009

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Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; with her husband named Time magazine's Persons of the Year in December 2005
Melinda Gates at Harvard, 2007

Melinda Gates at the Harvard University commencement of 2007, as her husband Bill Gates gives the commencement address

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