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...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, who chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee, succeeded in writing into law the ban on openly gay men and lesbians in uniform. Barring the pre-enlistment question about homosexuality "was the only compromise Congress let Clinton get away with," says Elaine Donnelly, president of the non-profit Center for Military Readiness which supports continuing the ban. "The law respects the power of sexuality and the normal human desire for modesty in sexual matters...
...virtual slavery, have drawn attention to the vulnerability of foreign wives here. To prevent the women from being purchased like commodities, Taiwan enacted a law last month cracking down on the foreign-bride industry and its advertisements. The law requires Taiwan's roughly 500 matchmaking agencies to become non-profit organizations and adhere to stricter regulation, or face recurring fines...
...Bowman, a Harvard graduate student who serves as the secretary for Harvard Kenyans, said that ensuring that aid gets into the right hands can be difficult. As a result, Bowman said the group is identifying organizations that are run by Harvard affiliates. One such group is Orphan Wisdom, a non-profit started by Elizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi, a student at Harvard Divinity School, which helps run an orphanage and school in rural Kenya. The aid effort is complicated by the sensitivity of the political situation, which sometimes spills over into the Kenyan community at Harvard, Bowman said...
...first mistreated hundreds of thousands of veterans, then took the position that the vets could not bring their grievances to court to be heard," said Melissa Kasnitz, whose non-profit law firm, Disability Rights Advocates, represents the veterans groups. "Today, VA's shameful effort to keep these deserving veterans from their day in court was rejected...
Harvard has recently come under attack from preservationists who are concerned that it may sell a 99-acre tract of land in Hamilton, Mass. According to local advocates, Harvard has been involved in talks with a non-profit, the Trustees of Reservations, that has expressed interest in buying the land, which is part of University holdings known as the Harvard Forest. Part of the dustup revolves around Harvard’s fidelity to the bequest that deeded the land to the University in the first place. It specifies that the tract be maintained as an “experimental station...