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...crimes - in 1988, Dorothea Puente was nicknamed "the black widow of Sacramento" when the 60-year-old was convicted of killing three boarders and then continuing to cash their pension checks - some elements of the Los Angeles duo's alleged crimes shocked even hardened veterans. "Female killers operating for profit by taking out insurance policies on their victims are working one of the oldest scams in the book," says Michael D. Kelleher, who co-wrote Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. "What makes this situation unique is that they rarely operate in pairs...
...comparison to chief executives at for-profit firms with revenues comparable to Harvard’s, Summers was paid a pittance...
...University reported total revenues of $4.994 billion last year. If Harvard were a for-profit firm, it would place 430th on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies, seven spots behind RadioShack and 13 spots ahead of Hershey...
Volunteers and workers at non-profit charities do not consider themselves immune to criticism; in fact, those of us who volunteer our time at non-profits are eager to critically examine our own practices and to learn how to do our work more efficiently, quickly, and effectively...
There are times, however, when this criticism crosses the line. Case in point: the unfounded claim in this op-ed that large non-profit charities are “shoddy,” “nearly-fraudulent,” and “out of control.” The writer, Lucy M. Caldwell, begins by arguing that the American Cancer Society (ACS) spends “only 26 percent of its national multibillion-dollar budget on actual medical research.” The rest, she claims, is waste. Caldwell seems to be unaware that the cancer society...