Microsoft demagogue Bill Gates hasn't been getting the greatest PR recently as his company battles antitrust charges in federal court.

Could the enormous donation he gave last week to a children's vaccination program be the first step toward resuscitating his image?

Gates denied this and accused reporters of being too cynical (that's what we're paid for, Bill). 'If there's any two things that are more unrelated, then this has got to be it,' he said. 'We wanted to get this ...