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HEFA is an independent state agency that assists the capital raising efforts of educational, health, cultural and other non-profit institutions through loan programs and the sale of tax-exempt bonds...
...July 4th re-enactments had started early. "We struck a blow for freedom today," said G.O.P. Congressman Lindsey Graham. On the Senate floor, John McCain gave a similar fife-and-drum salute: "It is indeed a great day for democracy." The defeated foe: a proliferating breed of shadowy tax-exempt special-interest groups that must now disclose their political spending and donors. The patriot among patriots? McCain, who led the charge for the first successful effort to change campaign-finance laws in more than two decades...
This time around, though, the ad was sponsored by a secretive tax-exempt group called Shape the Debate, which has ties to former G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson. Shape the Debate and its kin, including three groups tied to House G.O.P. whip Tom DeLay, don't have to disclose their donors or their spending so long as they don't say "vote for" or "vote against" a candidate. Also, they're not supposed to coordinate their work with that of a candidate...
...from the 1950s on, Billy Graham led many Evangelicals toward a greater tolerance. Jones, however, reviled Graham. (He later reviled even Jerry Falwell.) His fundamentalist separatism suspended B.J.U. in amber on topics from anti-Catholicism to its ban on interracial dating (which led to the revocation of its tax-exempt status). Today B.J.U.'s positions are truly marginal. Although some conservative Protestants still prefer to refer to "Christians" and "Catholics" separately, B.J.U.'s hard-core attitude, says University of Akron political science professor John Green, is shared by only "a tiny, tiny portion of Evangelicals...
...welcoming dorm-room businesses with open arms. While students are no longer forbidden from using University resources to run their businesses, they must still operate under legitimate constraints. Budding entrepreneurs must take care not to disrupt their roommates. Furthermore, the proposed policy, citing the University's non-profit tax-exempt status, warns against "excessive" use of resources. Business traffic on Harvard's computer and mail systems must blend in with normal use. Students are also prohibited from listing their Harvard e-mail addresses or phone numbers as business contacts...