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...both of Ross Perot's Independent candidacies as campaign manager and principal spokesperson in 1992 and as general counsel in 1996. Mulford, a 51-year-old corporate security lawyer and director of Peerless Manufacturing Co., more recently has been working with the National Math and Science Initiative, a nonprofit education organization geared at expanding school programs in those areas. On Friday, January 18 in Austin, Texas, he met with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
James Foley, the State Department's senior coordinator for Iraqi refugees, says arrivals could jump to 1,000 a month this year. But that number is still "shockingly small," says Melissa Winkler, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the nonprofit organizations tasked with helping resettle Iraqis in the U.S. (By contrast, Sweden has taken in some 31,300 asylum seekers since March 2003.) Charles Shipman, who runs refugee programs for the state of Arizona, says growing U.S. cities like Phoenix can handle more Iraqi refugees than are coming in at the moment. Housing in Phoenix...
...because it offers a powerful infrastructure, a network of suppliers, expertise and kindred spirits. The camera crews of TV production units have access to countless photo-equipment shops. Fashion designers can find any fabric sample among the garment-industry retailers on Seventh Avenue. The local cultural eco-structure combines nonprofit institutions that can take chances on commercially risky productions with profitmaking enterprises seeking big returns. This means that an actress can work in an off-Broadway production of The Seagull at night and still make the rent shooting a TV spot during the day. Meanwhile, a critical mass of institutions...
...Affairs has a larger annual budget - $131 million in fiscal 2006 - than the U.S. government's National Endowment for the Arts. The prospect of New York's real estate sector driving out its culture sector has the city worried. Last year Mayor Michael Bloomberg established an office to help nonprofit groups, especially those in the arts, to find affordable space and attract financing. The city's housing agency also set up a $100 million fund to help artists buy the spaces where they live and work...
...short, dark-haired man with a fiery intensity and stubborn tenacity, Desbois heads a nonprofit organization in Paris called Yahad-In Unum, which promotes Catholic-Jewish relations. With his mission approved by France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that...