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...student groups a substantial advantage over direct contributions. Gift accounts enable donors to deduct their donations from their taxes because the recipient of the donations is technically the University, not the groups themselves. Without these accounts, student groups would have to establish themselves as 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, which is a difficult, time-consuming process that requires expensive annual audits. Moreover, gift accounts are useful because they confer an extra degree of legitimacy on student groups’ finances. Because withdrawals have to go through the university, donors have the added reassurance of knowing that there is another...
...testament to the fact that it felt quite genuine and warm the way she was reaching out to the students and being a really good mentor rather than the necessary bureaucratic role she inevitably had to play,” said Boston, who founded uNight, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting war victims in northern Uganda...
...Melton, and another on markets and morals. “The book tries to argue for the moral limits of markets in certain spheres of life,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Examples range from organs for transplantation to mercenary armies to for-profit prisons, schools, and hospitals.” Sandel plans to incorporate those themes into a new course he will be instructing upon his return. Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer will be dedicating much of her time to Cultural Agents, an interfaculty initiative at Harvard that...
...conduct to which Ney has pleaded guilty is similar to the alleged conduct of Senator Conrad Burns and his staff," points out Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit watchdog group. "Abramoff has said that Burns and his staff used Signatures [Abramoff's restaurant] like their cafeteria. And Burns took a number of legislative actions on Abramoff's behalf, even as members of his staff went on trip to the 2001 Super Bowl on private jet and visited Sun Cruise gambling ships, which were partly owned by Abramoff. "Abramoff himself said...
...stars: Jennifer Lopez's fragrance, Glow, rakes in more than $100 million a year for Coty, which has just launched a scent linked to Desperate Housewives, Forbidden Fruit?either a stroke of marketing genius or a sure sign of the apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel. Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton, Donald Trump and Sean (Diddy) Combs also have...