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...were up to Robert Egger, the 2008 campaign endorsements would carry messages like "Girl Scouts Choose Hillary" or "The Cleveland Library Votes Giuliani." Well, not exactly, but what Egger, who runs a Washington, D.C., soup kitchen, does want is for nonprofit organizations to break their traditional silence in presidential politics - a silence prompted by the complex rules governing tax-exempt status. Egger points out that nonprofits employ 14 million Americans, nearly 10% of the national workforce, and hold assets of $1.76 trillion. "We've got to organize," Egger urges, "take our seat at the table and be heard...
Necessity, that great mother of invention, played her role in the creation of DeepStream Technologies. Chief executive Mark Crosier and his core team found it necessary to get work in 2003 after losing their jobs. They became surplus to needs when Eaton Corp., an electrical company based in Cleveland, Ohio, bought the part of Delta Corp. where they worked. "Our whole team was severed in a redundancy, and we decided to design and build a business rather than all pursue our separate ways," recalls Crosier...
...learn, for one thing, not to take the Cleveland Indians of the world lightly, but rather to give them their due. We should learn not to confound our institution’s legend with our own successes and failures—neither to gloat over our Harvard predecessors’ glory, nor to feel unworthy when we try our best and still fall short of their accomplishments...
...University of Illinois is not alone. Native Americans have had to endure insult from even higher-profile teams. The Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, and Atlanta Braves all mock Native Americans with their names and “traditions.” The Indians’ mascot, Chief Wahoo, comes complete with a red face and dopey smile. Clearly offensive emblems like this are only accepted because they are taken for granted...
...Yankees traded for that contract after the '03 season (he was set to make about $27 million per year on the last three years of that deal before he opted out), and how many World Series titles did they win with A-Rod? Zero. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies and Cleveland Indians - one team the National League champ, the other one game from a pennant - invested in young, relatively cheap talent and succeeded...