Bill Gates spent years crafting his image. Now it’s cracking.

Wall Street Journal: Internally Gates’s team realized the situation surrounding their leader was unlikely to subside, even as they continued spending billions on their work on issues such as eradicating malaria and polio and reducing maternal and child mortality. Nonprofits still sought Gates Foundation money, especially since federal funding dried up, but the prestige of the foundation had been diminished. World leaders and nonprofit executives were wary of having engagements with Gates. Even Microsoft was pulling away…