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...nobody ever said philanthropy has to be utterly free of personal motives to be effective. Even the family's longtime devotion to the mentally disabled has its first impulse in the shadowed legacy of the Kennedy sister Rosemary, who has lived for decades in a Catholic care facility in Wisconsin. Born mildly retarded in 1918, she was made much more so after her father made the questionable decision to subject her to a prefrontal lobotomy. With that episode as a constant backdrop, even the best-intentioned Kennedy efforts on behalf of the mentally disabled will seem partly an attempt...
...also absorbed the lesson that it's possible to serve the public and oneself at the same time. In TV spots last winter, households interested in purchasing discount fuel from Citizens Energy were asked to call a toll-free number that just happened to be 877-JOE-4-OIL. Maybe he's not entirely out of politics...
Even as he appealed to Christian conservatives by extolling the "transforming power of faith" to change lives, Bush chided his own party for hardheartedness. "We must apply our conservative and free-market ideas to the job of helping real human beings," he said, "because any ideology, no matter how right in theory, is sterile and empty without that goal." And while he labeled his chief Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, an out-of-touch "Washington politician," Bush also lectured conservatives that "government is not the enemy of the American people." Even Bush's father was an indirect target...
...card and UFO-shaped "base station" (a $400 optional package) allow up to 10 users to swap data and surf the Web wirelessly from a range of up to 150 ft., putting Apple at least a few fiscal quarters ahead of its Windows rivals in the race to free humanity from those pesky cords. Very...
...market, lost its contract with the New York Daily News, which may well have been its lifeblood. UPI's contract with the also-struggling tabloid was good for $55,000 per month. In desperate denial, UPI offered to let the Daily News hang on to its service for free for months, hoping to win back the contract. Enter the Tennesseans...