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...Minister was mayor of Jerusalem, outlining the daily humiliations those in East Jerusalem face. "If all our problems are related to security," he asked cynically, "why don't we have a mayor in army uniform?" Olmert, says Dajani, expressed sympathy--but the hotelier insists that the Arabs' second-class status remains unchanged...
...messages like "Girl Scouts Choose Hillary" or "The Cleveland Library Votes Giuliani." Well, not exactly, but what Egger, who runs a Washington, D.C., soup kitchen, does want is for nonprofit organizations to break their traditional silence in presidential politics - a silence prompted by the complex rules governing tax-exempt status. Egger points out that nonprofits employ 14 million Americans, nearly 10% of the national workforce, and hold assets of $1.76 trillion. "We've got to organize," Egger urges, "take our seat at the table and be heard...
...comrades are walking a tightrope. For one thing, they risk alienating the donors on whom they count on for operating funds. More significantly, they could be breaking the law. Nearly all nonprofits are set up under Section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code, which grants them tax-exempt status if they agree to stay out of politics - only 20% of their budgets can go to political or lobbying work, which must be mostly educational in nature...
...cycle, the IRS warned 26 charities that they'd stepped over the line, and a further 60 are under investigation. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in August returned a $50,000 check to a Colorado family foundation after his policy organization determined the donation was illegal. Losing tax-exempt status could be financially devastating to smaller nonprofits. "You do have to be careful," says Ann Kuster, a lawyer advising the Nonprofit Primary Project. "Everything we undertake must be nonpartisan and include every candidate...
...wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version of Margaret Thatcher (and pre-cursor to Nicolas Sarkozy): a free market reformer ready to shake up the status quo and social welfare state in old Europe. But in his five-year reign from 2001 to 2006, Berlusconi was unable to overcome divisions among his allies or resist his own focus on protecting his business and judicial interests to produce real reform...