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This opened a realm that had always been unwelcoming to the public. "It was very much a one-way street," Schmidt says of the flow of information from charity to donor. Concerned citizens had to wait eons for the IRS to supply a copy--or had to pester often unwilling nonprofits to disclose their activities. "Charities would leave off attachments or white out people's salaries," says Daniel Borochoff, president of charity watchdog American Institute of Philanthropy. "They can't get away with that anymore...
...offenders disappear. On America Online, enter the Keyword "marketing preferences," then click "pop-up," "continue," "no" and "O.K." Within a day or two, the full-screen ads that pop up when you log on to AOL and the smaller ads in the bottom-right corner of the screen will pester you no more...
...basketball's Shaquille O'Neal for youngsters to emulate [SPORT, June 19]. As you noted, Shaq has dipped into some serious treatises. What a wonderful world it would be if a kid should say, "When I grow up, I want to be just like Shaq," and then proceed to pester his parents to buy a copy of Aristotle's classic work Nichomachean Ethics. FRANK DOOLEY Whitesboro...
...smart as he thinks. Sebulba, Anakin's rival in the Podrace, walks on his hands and throttles rivals with his feet. "George said, 'Think of a spider crossed with an orangutan crossed with a sloth,'" recalls Rob Coleman, the film's animation director. Coleman would pester Lucas for backstory on obscure creatures like Sebulba, "but I've never been able to stump him. He marinates in this world...
...whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments and pray outside on the lawn, heavyweight champs and movie stars with a cause and CEOs come to call and oh, yes--the lawmakers themselves can walk the halls unmolested because no one really recognizes them unless they have a ribbon...