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Many fellows also choose to audit classes alongside Harvard students. Six of the past semester’s seven fellows took Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights,” Burns said...
Equal Exchange can also boast that it started a trend. About 450 coffee importers opt to pay above-market rates for certain beans and then sell the product as premium coffee in 45,000 stores nationwide with Fair Trade certification, an independent audit from TransFair USA. The Fair Trade sector accounts for just 2% of the $22 billion domestic retail coffee market. But the industry is striving to keep up with rising public expectations for the way the brew comes to market...
...tougher job, its Exempt Organizations Division has added 160 auditors over the past two years. Since August 2004, according to Mark Everson, commissioner of the IRS, the agency has contacted 1,240 organizations with questions about how they pay their executives. So far, 719 returns have come under audit for suspicious accounting. State regulators, who have traditionally policed nonprofits, are pushing for new laws. The House and Senate held hearings this summer on nonprofit governance and drafted legislation that is being reviewed as part of a tax-reform package. (The last major regulations covering the industry were adopted...
...Keep listening, oh little ones, for there are more lessons you must learn. Once you’ve made it through a brisk morning breakfast of blogs, you will be craving further sustenance. Now comes the time to evaluate the fame, which is exactly what they do at Fametracker.com--audit whether celebrities really deserve the attention they receive. The latest feature for Fametracker is “Celebrity vs. Thing,” which pits the names we know and love against important objects, banishing one for all eternity. Would you rather have Elijah Wood or Commemorative Wristbands? Orlando Bloom...
...members—Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 and Henrietta Davis—openly declared their candidacies. The controversial proposal, authored by Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, would have directed the city manager to examine whether it was legal for the City Council to pay for an outside audit of the School Department. Currently, Cambridge schools submit both to internal audits and to outside audits that the system pays for. Galluccio’s order expressed a “lack of confidence” in the current system, stemming from, in part, a 1.2 percent surplus in last...