“Billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros pledged $50 million to the Robin Hood Foundation at its New York gala dinner, helping the charity raise a record sum last night to help the city’s poor. The event took $72.7 million, the most Robin Hood has raised in a single night, defying the slump in charitable giving caused by the current recession. … To qualify for Soros’s gift of $50 million, Robin Hood has to raise an additional $150 million over two years.”