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...April 1994, the governing Board of Trustees turned to Ladner—a former ethics professor and head of the nonprofit National Faculty of the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences—to bring stability to the top leadership position...
...thing, money--where it comes from, where it goes--has always been at the heart of the charges against Gingrich. In the main, he's accused of improperly taking tax-deductible contributions made to various nonprofit foundations and funneling them into party-building activities for the G.O.P., then misleading the ethics committee when it investigated those dealings. So when it came time to decide his fitness as Speaker, it might have been better if House members had been spared any hints that their future withdrawals from the G.O.P. campaign-finance account might depend on how they voted. Niceties like that...
...tiptoe past the political graveyard. On Dec. 21 the House ethics committee released a 22-page report based on evidence assembled by James Cole, its special investigator. Most of its findings concerned whether the nationally broadcast college course that Gingrich taught, which was financed by tax-deductible contributions to nonprofit organizations, had partisan purposes. The subcommittee concluded that it had. Most damningly, the panel determined that Gingrich had misled committee investigators by signing false statements declaring that his political organization, GOPAC, had no involvement with the course...
...least it was a respectable movie house,” says Simon—featuring an eclectic, and often obscure, mix of foreign, classic, and independent films ever since (see sidebar). Financial troubles arrived in earnest in the nineties, and, despite a shift to nonprofit status and some major renovations in 2001, those troubles have only deepened as attendance figures have dropped, says Brattle Creative Director Ned Hinkle. These widespread troubles have prompted the Brattle Film Foundation to launch the most extensive fund-raising effort in its history...
...without a classroom.” The theater frequently invites speakers to introduce films or host after-show discussions. Its directors sometimes distribute essays by noted critics during screenings. Hinkle said he is committed to preserving the Brattle’s history of unconventional film programming. The organization became nonprofit in 2001, a move that Hinkle said he believes “[speaks] to what the Brattle is known for.” The Brattle’s dramatic legacy began in 1946, before it started screening films. Jerome T. Kilty ’49, a student actor who considered...