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...Bettie was a marvel, shaking her tush in those Klaw non-music videos. (Astonishingly, there was no music in the downtown lofts that made do as her movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude...
...records, finding consistent histories of self-injury and mental-health problems. There are numerous psychological and emotional factors that drive people to self-harm, but according to Harvard psychology professor Matthew Nock, who specializes in the study of self-injurious behavior and edited a book on the subject, Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (due March 2009), many do it for two broad reasons: to regulate their emotions and to communicate with others. "Self-injurers experience greater physiological arousal in response to stress, show poor ability to tolerate distress, and have greater deficits in social problem-solving skills," Nock explains, meaning...
...Because non-profits are exempt from paying property taxes, their financial contributions to the city—known as payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs—are voluntarily negotiated, and as a result, lack standardized guidelines...
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced on Tuesday the formation of a task force intended to reexamine the amount of voluntary payments made by universities and other non-profit institutions to the city...
...much land as Harvard, pays $4.6 million—over half of the city’s $8.1 million collected from higher education PILOTs. The city collects $32.4 million annually from PILOTs—a small sum compared to the estimated $350 million that Boston would receive if non-profits were not tax-exempt...