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Have the UK's rich lost the art of giving?

While our rich may be getting richer, they lag badly behind America when it comes to acts of philanthropy. However, there are signs in Scotland that the spirit of Andrew Carnegie lives on

THE man who dies rich, dies disgraced," Andrew Carnegie, pictured, Scotland's biggest philanthropist, once said. If that is the case, most of Britain's rich will exit this mortal coil in varying degrees of dishonour.