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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tidal wave during this recession, poses stiff challenges for nonprofits. They can't pay the rent with volunteer hours. One in two nonprofits says its funding has fallen, according to "The Quiet Crisis," a new report by Civic Enterprises, a social-issues think tank. When the economy was this rotten in the early 1970s, charitable giving fell more than 9%, adjusted for inflation. Experts believe something like that will occur in this recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nonprofit Squeeze: Donations Down, Volunteers Up | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that’s why my embroidered pigs are so rotten!” I heard blare from behind me.I froze at her voice! Where could I hide? What was even huge enough to hide me? A statue? A cross? An ironclad? There was nothing anywhere. A church foyer had never been so ruthless!Then I saw him. Next...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Rouge control, Pol Pot's means of implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khmer Rouge | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...seconds: Length of the court is too far for the Crimson. Pusar gets stuck in the back court and his sixty-footer falls short. What a Big Rotten Apple...

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: MEN'S BASKETBALL AT COLUMBIA | 2/14/2009 | See Source »

Allen takes on a few subjects that are beyond her grasp--"F___ You," her rotten egg lobbed at George W. Bush, feels ridiculous and late--but even when she's being stupid, she sounds like an honest pop star. To quote a line from her ballad "Who'd Have Known," "Even though it's moving forward, there's just the right amount of awkward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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