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...definitely a split decision,” said Curt Levey, director of legal and public affairs for the Center for Individual Rights, a non-profit Washington law firm which opposes racial preferences...
...festival is not going to stay the same," says Lawrence Klein, chairman of MOCCA, which stands for Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Founded in 2001 as a non-profit, MOCCA's stated purpose is the "collection, preservation, study, education, and display of comic and cartoon art." Currently headquartered in Manhattan's Union Square, MOCCA hopes to eventually open a museum, possibly downtown in the recovering World Trade Center area, though no exact location or opening date have been announced. For now they fulfill their mission by organizing spot exhibits around New York and putting together the annual art festival...
Tanya had taken Shaliah out of a charter school and moved her to Shoemaker last fall, pleased that Chancellor Beacon Academies, a Florida-based for-profit company, was taking over the school. She had reason to be optimistic: Chancellor Beacon charter schools in Florida and New York had performed above the state and national norms. In Philadelphia, however, Chancellor Beacon became the only management company fired by the district. According to Philly schools chief Vallas, the company failed to "create a presence" and didn't provide teacher training, shrink class size or offer after-school programs--all goals...
...additional 28% over the next three years. According to the Nilson Report, which tracks payment services, Western Union controls nearly 80% of the electronic money-transfer market in the U.S., the world's biggest sender of remittances, which helped it pick up a nicely rounded $1 billion in profit last year from $3.2 billion in revenue. But several years of 30% profit margins have drawn complaints of price gouging--and a host of new competitors ranging from big U.S. banks (Bank of America, Citigroup, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo) to credit unions to foreign niche players like Remit2India.com and FXRemit.com which...
Midway Games makes Mortal Kombat and other popular video amusements yet hasn't turned a profit since 1999. Enter Zucker, 40, who knows something about turnarounds. He spent last year as COO of Playboy Enterprises and helped deliver its first profitable quarter in more than four years. At Midway, Zucker plans to focus operations on the company's best brands and genres and expand export sales from about 15% of revenue to the 40% to 45% achieved by its competitors...