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...ethics-reform legislation would bar House members from accepting fees for speeches, but they could suggest their hosts pass on up to $2,000 in the member's name to a charity of the member's choice. The bill requires members to reveal the donor but not the destination of the money...
...Harvard has to try its best to givesomething back--from sponsoring an active HarvardClub in a donor's hometown to offering a big givera seat on an advisory committee...
...Once I said [to a prospective donor], 'I'm endowing a chair'--a few days later he called and did the same," Monrad says...
...will not remove the most serious hurdle to transplants: the chronic shortage of donor organs. More than 18,000 Americans in need of transplants are waiting for organs to become available...
...playing called for her to be ousted from the Emmy-winning lead in Arthur Miller's CBS-TV drama Playing for Time. Politics also excluded her from being cast in the Broadway drama Plenty. That same year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, allegedly fearful of disruptions and of losing donor support, dumped Redgrave from scheduled performances as narrator of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. She brought a civil rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand...