Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyer Rick Tessier, Connick's office has withheld favorable evidence three times in three separate capital cases in which he's been involved. "Capital cases are so political that winning becomes far more important for the average D.A.," says Denise LeBoeuf, an attorney specializing in capital cases for the nonprofit Loyola Resource Center. "We're not talking about being competitive. We're talking about winning at all costs. Deliberately deceiving the court. Withholding favorable evidence. Arguing things they know aren't true. Harassing defense witnesses. Concealing deals they make with their witnesses. Winning means getting a death sentence. They...
...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...
...combed out during thorough examinations of a child's hair. Some kids may benefit from a number of over-the-counter products, but their efficacy varies from case to case. For nit and lice removal, several school systems are experimenting with a metal-toothed comb endorsed by the nonprofit National Pediculosis Association (www. headlice.org) Advice on insecticides and home remedies, as well as on the best methods for cleaning sheets, clothing and pillowcases, is reviewed in two new books, Wiping Out Head Lice by Nicholas Bakalar (Signet; $5.99) and The Lice-Buster Book: What to Do When Your Child Comes...
...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...