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...recipients, had little to lose eight years ago when it launched Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), a program that will cost $289 million this year to provide job training to about 200,000 welfare recipients. A recent study by the Manpower Demonstration and Research Corp., a New York-based nonprofit group, found that two years after entering the program, single parents earned an average of 20% more than those who had not taken part...
...common in the job market, though. In large corporations, very few Asians have reached senior-executive rank. The reason, in part at least, seems to be a kind of cultural Great Wall that blinds management to what Asians expect in the workplace. Says J.D. Hokoyama, president of the national nonprofit organization known as LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics): "In America a worker comes into my office and asks for a promotion. Asians don't do that...
...surprise delight, She Loves Me, was far from a guaranteed hit. During its initial run, in a season dominated by Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl, it failed to recoup its investment. "And then it sat on the shelf for 30 years," says Todd Haimes, artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout Theater, which mounted the show for a summer run of a couple of months, during which it turned into a runaway hit and a commercial transfer. A key factor: ecstatic reviews from this generation of critics, who are unaccustomed to the musical bounty that greeted their predecessors three decades...
...Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected piles of documents, affidavits that appear to prove that Schlup was not at the murder site -- and, in fact, that identify another inmate who may have committed the crime...
...long we could survive without him," in tones that suggest the likely duration would be a day and a half. While season subscribers have fallen from 27,000 the opening year to about 18,000 today, that is competitive with the 23,000 for the much older Roundabout, a nonprofit Broadway company that favors more contemporary, commercial work...