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...from only a decade ago, virtually all Harvard students have personal computers. A good old-fashioned radio, on the other hand, is becoming difficult to find. Undergraduates use the Internet far more often than they listen to the airwaves—illustrating the damage that will be done to nonprofit student radio stations because of a recent decision to charge royalties for songs broadcast over the Internet...
...doing recruiting,” Harpaul says, explaining that “the world of business is just not for me.” Most of these marshals are looking to fellowships, medical school and public service. Deanna is considering media and nonprofit work, echoing the idealistic ambitions of Harpaul, who hopes to “Teach for America or work on the 2004 presidential campaign.” Pat and Monique both hope to serve the community in scrubs, with medical school on the agenda in the not-too-distant future. The general philosophy, however, as Monique points...
...companies that manage public schools as a business; Victory Schools, a much smaller New York City firm with schools in that city aswell as in Baltimore, Md.; and the Chancellor Beacon Academies of Coconut Grove, Fla., which operates charter schools and private day schools around the country. Two nonprofit organizations were also given schools to run, and both Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania will provide extensive services atothers. In addition, the panel hired Paul Vallas,who oversaw major reforms in Chicago's schools, as its new district CEO. Butmosteyes, in Philadelphia and around the nation, are focused...
Ginny Shear, 52, of LeRoy, N.Y., a quality-assurance technician for Eastman Kodak, devotes a lot of her spare time to serving as the executive director of the Women's Motorcyclist Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about motorcycling. In 1996 the group started the Pony Express Relay, a national run to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Three such relays have been held; the last, in 2000, drew about 700 men and women and raised $450,000. The next event, scheduled for July, will have participants joining the route at various points from...
...recording, though, they get the missing 20%. The label has released the first two installments of its Mahler symphony cycle - the first issue sold around 9,800 of its 10,000 run. The orchestra's director of operations John Kieser originally saw the scheme as a sponsorship-dependent, nonprofit venture, but in the light of sales is now "looking to push beyond the 10,000" to see if SFS Media can pay for itself. For him, though, the label is mainly a marketing and delivery tool. "We were traditionally content providers," Kieser says. "TV channels, radio stations and recording companies...