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...council representatives will likely be hawking class rings on behalf of a large, for-profit company. Granted, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)—the official ring vendor of the original bill, and now likely to be the one chosen by the council—is itself nonprofit. But it will almost certainly be contracting the ring-making out to a company that will reap large benefits from the deal...
...Trade in Endangered Species. But the stingray look has some experts concerned. "Because they aren't traditional, high-value fish food, sharks, skates and rays are some of the most underprotected fish species in the world," says Sonja Fordham, an international-fisheries specialist with the Ocean Conservancy, a private nonprofit that does science-based advocacy on ocean issues. "In most cases we don't know how their populations are doing. Stingrays are just not as easy to count as cows...
...they are raising the stakes. Two months ago, the Taliban claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed a Canadian and a British soldier. Last week, just the day before Karzai declared the Taliban "defeated," five members of an Afghan nonprofit group were shot dead by suspected militants. In Spin Boldak, a dusty smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border...
Minder, who described himself to the Arizona Republic as "the epitome of rehabilitated," in 1976 founded a nonprofit group to help delinquent youths, which now has a multimillion-dollar budget. Last week, amid a barrage of criticism, he resigned as chairman but will stay on Smith & Wesson's board. Anti-gun lobbyists hope this embarrassment will help them defeat a bill in Congress that would shield gunmakers from crime-victim lawsuits. Says Mike Barnes, head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: "Only in the N.R.A.'s America can a company chaired by a onetime violent hoodlum...
...growing, nonprofit, “nonpartisan” network of activists and artists whose goal is to challenge President Bush’s administration and expose its failed policies through witty and strategic media and theater campaigns. Launched during the 2000 presidential campaign as “Billionaires for Bush or Gore,” it uses a wily combination of satire and facts to communicate through grass-roots organizations and the Internet. The campaign aims to alert the public to the fact that Bush is, in fact, not the ordinary, down-to-earth guy he purports to be. Instead...