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Many students who received the invitation thought they were being "punched" for a potential new final club. But final clubs are nonprofit institutions, while Chang and Shapiro could take profits or losses as the new business' registered owners...
...Some are fast-rising newcomers and some are old hands. But nobody is faster rising or more of an old hand than Pierre de Carlet Chamblain de Marivaux, who in the past few years has vaulted from a footnote or curiosity to a leading dramatist at the nation's nonprofit houses -- and who has been dead since 1763. This season alone has seen at least eight major productions involving four plays, from False Admissions at Connecticut's Hartford Stage to The Triumph of Love at California's Berkeley Repertory. Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, is now playing...
...cynical time. Another is his obsession with sex and its consequences. Says artistic director Mark Lamos of Hartford: "We're in an age where we can only talk about sex, not have it. These plays are a roundelay of sexual enticement." A third factor, Lamos adds, is that the nonprofit theater has explored the best- known classics, "so there is a natural movement toward the less familiar...
Mack's studies are largely funded by a tax-exempt, nonprofit research organization that he founded in 1983, now called the Center for Psychology and Social Change. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the center was started as an attempt to study the nuclear arms race in psychological terms. After the cold war ended, the organization started raising money for scholars who want to combine psychology with such topics as ecology and ethnic conflicts. Explains the center's executive director, Vivienne Simon: "One of our main goals is to challenge current scientific method, which is to deny all things you cannot...
...rule it out just because the perpetrators are nonprofit, indicated a unanimous Supreme Court last week. Writing for his colleagues in the case National Organization for Women, Inc., et al. v. Scheidler, et al., Chief Justice William Rehnquist held that even though antiabortion activists do not seek financial gain, they may still be hit with suits under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, an extremely effective ) prosecutor's tool forged in 1970. He pointed out that it was money lost by victims rather than money gained by the perpetrators that informed his decision. The blockades have indeed been...