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...number of other lawmakers are in hot water as well for accepting Abramoff-arranged foreign golfing junkets, including one to Scotland's fabled St. Andrews course. The Washington Post reported Saturday that DeLay's trip was indirectly financed by Indian tribes and gambling interests through payments to a nonprofit policy group that was sponsoring the trip. House rules would have prohibited direct payment. Most of the politicians who took trips organized by Abramoff claim they thought the junkets were paid for by charities or policy groups...
...Philippines is no ordinary place to practice journalism. In fact, after Iraq, it is the second deadliest country in the world for journalists. It's a sign of just how treacherous the profession has become that fledgling reporters are routinely given a booklet titled Staying Alive, published by a nonprofit group called the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists. It contains helpful hints such as, "Vary your regular routes and routines so that it is harder to keep track of your activities." It also offers advice for bloody situations, suggesting: "If the journalist has been hurt, bring...
...seem inoffensive, but be warned: over the past few years, horror stories have emerged about credit-counseling agencies that funnel consumers into expensive debt-management plans. Last year the Senate urged the IRS and the Federal Trade Commission to step up enforcement against some outfits for abusing their nonprofit status...
Despite its pedigree, though, the club’s mission is to provide a stage for young up-and-comers. Its management takes this mission so seriously that the club became a nonprofit organization in 1995, and runs a “Culture for Kids” program to introduce low-income children to traditional music, dance, art, and food from a wide range of countries...
Boink may sound like a slightly raunchier version of our own H Bomb, but Katharina Cieplack-von Baldegg ’06, H Bomb’s editor in chief, insists there is no relation. Unlike H Bomb, a nonprofit organization funded by Harvard grants, Boink charges undergraduates $8 per issue and is unrecognized by its school. While Cieplack-von Baldegg wrote in an e-mail that H Bomb is “a rebellion against both New England Puritanism and the superficial, misogynist, and often pornographic depiction of sex in pop culture,” BU?...