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...defined by crimes and misdemeanors. Right up until dusk on the very last day of 1997, this looked to be the latter. The worst moments of the year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career. During his years running the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., and helping his Uncle Ted win a tough Senate re-election fight in 1994, Michael had earned a reputation as a creative philanthropist and political counselor. He was all set to run his brother Joe's campaign for Governor of Massachusetts, and then maybe run for office himself...
...order to raise money for a mosque or a temple they have to register with the IRS, elect a board of directors, have officers and conform to what a nonprofit organization looks like, so there is a kind of democracy built into the religious structure that reshapes every religious community," she says...
...bacteria that cause deadly hemorrhaging in the brain and chest--at the Al Hakam Single Cell Protein Production Plant. In the mid-1980s, before the U.S. belatedly banned such dangerous exports, Iraq's Education Ministry ordered 70 packages of microbes and toxins from the American Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says, "was imported from Europe and had nutrients that the anthrax bacteria needed to grow...
Clinton's embarrassment is a spectacle many conservative groups are relishing. But it's not exactly a fight between church and state, which is what the Rutherford Institute more typically pursues. Since Whitehead founded it 15 years ago with $200 and his family's Christmas-card list, the nonprofit foundation in Charlottesville, Va., has generally stayed focused on what he says is "my calling from God"--to defend religious liberty against what he sees as government encroachment. In interviews and publications, the institute describes Christians as a besieged population assaulted by a coarse, secular culture and the government that fosters...
Your article on the new popularity of Buddhism in America [RELIGION, Oct. 13] referred to our school, a private, nonprofit, liberal-arts college, as having been at the forefront of teaching Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures. We were thrilled to be included, but as much as we value our proximity to Denver, the institute is in fact located in Boulder, Colo., and received its accreditation in 1986, not 1996. LISA TRANK Manager, Public Relations Naropa Institute Boulder, Colo...