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Hulshof Donates Funds To Charity To Offset DeLay Money. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that U.S. House Representative Kenny Hulshof, has donated $14,500 to charity from his campaign committee to offset the amount of money he has gotten from Representative Tom DeLay, over the years. A Hulshof spokesman said that the money would be donated to the hurricane relief effort led by former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton. Hulshof and DeLay's relations have been strained since Hulshof, a former prosecutor, was removed from the House Ethics Committee after it admonished DeLay for some of his political activities. Hulshof believed that his removal was prompted by his role as head of the panel's investigative subcommittee.Full Text Word Count:220D

Former Head of N.Y. District Pleads Guilty to Taking Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Frank A. Tassone, the former superintendent of the Roslyn, New York, school district, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of grand larceny for his role in the alleged theft of millions of dollars from the district. Tassone, 58, was responsible for taking some $2 million, according to Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon. The money was spent on airline travel, cruises, hotel and resort accommodations, dermatology treatments, furniture, jewelry, and meals, authorities said. Under the terms of his plea, Tassone will repay the money to the district. In addition to the former superintendent, the district's former assistant superintendent for business and a former account clerk have been charged with taking district money.Full Text Word Count:288D

Gospel music will raise money for AIDS. (17 Jun 2006)
This article presents information on the fund raising event Broadway Gospel Celebration: 11 which will take place, as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Audiences will have the opportunity to not only hear some marvelous gospel music but hear them performed by Broadway stars including Tony award winners Adrienne Lenox and Phylicia Rashad on October 16 at 8 p.m., at Town Hall, in New York City. The event features the Broadway Inspirational Voices, which is a gospel choir of over 60 members, founded and directed by Broadway star Michael McElroy. This year's concert will be hosted by Star Jones Reynolds and feature special guest star Deborah Cox.Full Text Word Count:797D

'Two for the Money': winner or crap shoot? (17 Jun 2006)
This article presents information on the motion picture "Two for the Money," directed by D.J. Caruso. Brandon Lang played by actor Matthew McConaughey, is a football player who now makes a living as a sports gambling phenom. He gets an opportunity of a lifetime to work for Walter Abrams played by Al Pacino, a hotshot New York betting advisor. Speaking of McConaughey: he looks great. And rounding out the cast is Armand Assante, who has a cameo as Novian, a Puerto Rican high stakes gambler. Asante is deliciously wicked as a bad guy.Full Text Word Count:279D

A film career of law and order. (17 Jun 2006)
On the eve of a tribute by the Turner Classic Movie channel, director Sidney Lumet reflects on more than 50 years of filmmaking

MONEY WATCH. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on consumers in the U.S. Rise in interest rates following Hurricane Katrina; Outlook for more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve Board; Impact of higher gas prices and rising interest rates on credit card payments; How teenagers ages 13 to 17 are earning more through allowances, gifts and other forms of income, according to a new study.Full Text Word Count:480D

Google Restarts Its Video Search Engine. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
Reports on the efforts of Internet company Google to become an online video content gateway in the U.S. in 2005. Views of Peter Chane, senior product manager for Google Video, on the collaboration of the company with video right holders in bringing their content online; Partnership of Google with UPN for the broadcasting of the television show "Everybody Hates Chris"; Obstacles facing the company in its efforts to become a gateway.Full Text Word Count:1288

Google: Library Program Is Fair Use. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on the scanning of the full text of a book by Google Library in 2005. David Drummond, general counsel for Google, firmly disagreed with the position of authors and publishers that the act of scanning an entire work without the permission of the copyright holder--and having that copy reside in Google's search engine--is copyright infringement, even if Google intends to allow the public to view only a snippet of the work. Drummond maintained that copyright laws permit Google to copy a work if that is the only way Google can get to fair use.Full Text Word Count:409D

MONEY BAGS. (17 Jun 2006)
Offers a look at handbags carried by women celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, and Gwen Stefani.Full Text Word Count:99Da

Google Goes Inside the Beltway. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on the move of Google to hire a full-time lobbyist in Washington, D. C. Call it a rite of passage: Google, the once-upstart search outfit with the sparse homepage and a motto championing "Democracy on the Web," has hired its first full-time lobbyist in Washington, D. C. and plans to staff up more. Google has picked technology-law expert and Washington veteran Alan Davidson to help win friends and influence people on Capitol Hill. The move to beef up lobbying coincides with forays by the online giant Google into a host of new markets and services beyond basic Web search. Google's push into other communications, including Internet-calling service Google Talk and a plan to provide Wi-Fi for San Francisco, threatens to tread on turf dominated by the biggest phone carriers, including Verizon Communications and SBC Communications. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained computer scientist and graduate of Yale Law School, Davidson served for eight years as associate director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a nonprofit think tank and initiative group that opposes government and industry control of the Internet, while advocating user privacy.Full Text Word Count:1185

Mom's Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article mentions an October 11, 2004 article about three siblings of the Bancroft family involved in New Mexico litigation over their late mother Jacqueline (Jackie) Spencer Morgan's estate. Jackie Morgan's children (all former Forbes 400 members), from the family that controls Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, were aligned against Ronnie Lee Morgan, the much younger, openly gay interior designer their mother married late in life. The children have tentatively agreed to a settlement that would give Morgan an estimated $12 million outright.Full Text Word Count:234D

Career Changing. (17 Jun 2006)
The article focuses on teacher certification programs in the United States. The Resident Teacher Certification program recognizes that many people have the skills and desire to become teachers, but lack the credentials required by most systems. Under this program, new teachers take three classes over the summer while working in the extended school-year program as instructional aides. The program's objective is to recruit special education teachers. The program provides intensive training and master's degree-level college classes.Full Text Word Count:252D

Miami Teachers' Union to Receive Ex-President's Life-Insurance Money. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that United Teachers of Dade will eventually receive more than $1 million in an agreement with former President Pat L. Tornillo, whom officials believe bilked more than $3 million from the Miami union's coffers. Mr. Tornillo, who is serving a 27-month prison sentence under a plea bargain, and his wife, Donna, agreed to transfer ownership of their life-insurance policies to UTD, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. Donna Tornillo was not charged in the federal case.Full Text Word Count:142D

Group Calls For Further Action On China Currency. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that the organization, China Currency Coalition, is planning to declare that China's currency remains undervalued by 40 percent or more against the dollar and is calling on U.S. President George W. Bush's administration and the U.S. Congress to take a more aggressive stance against China's currency policy. Skip Hartquist, who is counsel to the labor, agricultural and manufacturing coalition, said that China's revaluation of the yuan by 2 percent in July 2005 was insignificant and its policy continues to result in cheaper Chinese exports. Hartquist said that his group is urging the Bush administration to reconsider its decision not to take the issue to the World Trade Organization.Full Text Word Count:202D

Lampson, DCCC Raising Money For Challenge To DeLay. (17 Jun 2006)
The article focuses on the plans of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and former Representative Nick Lampson to kick off a series of six regional fundraisers next week with an event aimed at individual donors that will raise money for the party and Lampson's bid to oust Republican Tom DeLay. Lampson campaign manager Mike Malaise said the Washington fundraiser is targeted at smaller, individual donors--including those from interest groups and congressional offices--as opposed to the PAC community, which he said is already on Lampson's donor call list. The DCCC and Lampson campaign have established a joint committee and will split the contributions evenly.Full Text Word Count:630D

Peru gives its poor more money, but there's a catch. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
A NEW TWIST

Cyclist Raises Money for Nontraditional Students. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that in just 30 days, Robert Erickson, a former trustee of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, raised $27,276 for scholarships. Erickson has raised thousands of dollars for scholarships by biking across Minnesota to visit 53 college campuses. By asking friends, family members, and other donors to sponsor him either with per-mile donations or flat pledges on his trips, he has raised $255,000 for aid to adult and nontraditional students. Erickson thought that hopping on his bike for such a long journey could help raise public interest in the financial-aid needs of adult and other nontraditional students in the state.Full Text Word Count:439D

It's Only Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Reports on the participation of U.S. Senator John McCain in a campaign organized by California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for initiatives that the governor wants to get passed in a special election in November 2005. Election funds in contributions collected by the governor from 2003 to 2005; Implication of the participation according to watchdog groups; Comments from the senator on the governor.Full Text Word Count:206D

Show Me the Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Look at how minority-owned businesses and smaller construction companies are having difficulty getting contracts with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Review of how only 1.6 percent of the $1.6 billion allocated for the relief effort has gone to minority-owned businesses; Comments on the issue from FEMA spokesman Nicol Andrew; Potential for a forthcoming government investigation of the issue. United States.Full Text Word Count:364D

Money Player. (17 Jun 2006)
Looks at retired baseball star Lenny Dykstra's new stock market career. How Dykstra's losses in the dotcom collapse crash made him get serious about the stock market; His relationship with market strategist, Richard Suttmeier; Dykstra's recovery of his earlier losses; Appearances on Jim Cramer's radio talk show about money matters and a financial advice column with TheStreet.com called "Nails on the Numbers."Full Text Word Count:396D

Two for the Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Reviews the motion picture "Two for the Money," starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo and Jeremy Piven.Full Text Word Count:180D

ICU effort saved lives, money: organizers. (17 Jun 2006)
Reports on benefits offered by the Keystone: ICU quality improvement program launched by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association and the Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group in the U.S. in October 2003. Results of the implementation of the program in several hospitals; Estimated number of lives and hospital days saved based on the typical frequency of patient conditions and associated mortality; Medical cost savings generated by the program.Full Text Word Count:421D

Stop Louisiana's Money Grab. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents an article about the $250 billion federal aid package proposed for Louisiana by state Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter in 2005. Reaction of Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour to the amount of federal aid package requested; Reason behind the high aid package requested by Louisiana from the federal government; Announcement made by Speaker Dennis Hastert on the cost of hurricane relief.Full Text Word Count:817D

VC Seed Money on the Down Slope. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on a report from a joint U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission working group on venture capital (VC). According to the report venture capital may soon be called mature capital as the report found that smaller startup companies are seeing less VC funding than more established companies. The findings call for more public sector and policy maker involvement in the VC process.Full Text Word Count:543D

SPEND MONEY ON DISASTERS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN. (17 Jun 2006)
ECONOMIC SCENE

Louisiana UMC bishop sees huge money toll. (17 Jun 2006)
Reports on the financial challenges facing the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Louisiana following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cost of the damage caused by the hurricane on UMC churches; Estimated value of insurance deductibles for church property in the New Orleans Parish.Full Text Word Count:180D

Remploy jobs 'not value for money'. (17 Jun 2006)
This article highlights the study Gaining and Retaining a Job: The Department for Work and Pensions' Support for Disabled People, released by British National Audit Office. The study found that one-third of organisations delivering the Workstep scheme in Great Britain, which aims to help disabled people move from supported to unsupported employment, had failed to permanently employ anyone in three years in the three years since April 2001. Remploy is the scheme's largest provider.Full Text Word Count:198D

Google's Escalating Book Battle. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on a complaint filed by several publishers in the U.S. district court in New York on October 19, 2005 against Web search engine Google Inc. for copyright infringement. Publishers McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and John Wiley & Sons have sued Google for planning to digitize library books. Google says its actions are compliant with an exemption in copyright law that makes allowances for reproduction for special purposes like research.Full Text Word Count:1147

The Way to a Google Office. (17 Jun 2006)
This article looks at the establishment of a strategic alliance between search engine Google and computer software developer Sun Microsystems in the U.S. on October 4, 2005. The alliance could take advantage of technology for running applications on the Web, one that eliminates the sluggishness and limited functions of traditional Web-based programs. The key to any Google applications package could be the StarOffice, a desktop-productivity suite that matches Microsoft Office program for program.Full Text Word Count:672D

White money controls Black politics. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on the civil rights of African Americans in the U.S. Forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, no discussion is occurring in the African American community about the impact of politics on their economic and political woes. This principle of international law is intended to ensure political equality among voters. Money has the effect, if not the intent, of undermining this constitutional design. Civil rights activist Martin L. King Jr. knew that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be ineffective without the Poor People's Campaign.Full Text Word Count:1387

Prolific Author Tells Google to Remove His Books From Its Library-Scanning Project. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on scholar and writer Jacob Neusner's demand that Google Inc. withdraw his books from the digital archive that the Internet-search company is compiling from the holdings of five university and research libraries. Neusner said that he had asked Google to remove his works from its Google Library project, but Google had insisted that he fill out a separate form for each of his books. According to Neusner, that was wrong because under copyright law it is Google's responsibility to seek permission to use a copyrighted work. So the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which has issued many of his books, took up the banner and insisted that all of its works be removed from Google Library as well.Full Text Word Count:352D

MONEY MANAGEMENT NOTES: IN BRIEF. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents news briefs related to the field of education in the U.S. Information that Decker College, a for-profit institution, has shut down most of its campuses and laid off many of its employees without paying them for work they had already done; Announcement by Fordham University that it will close Marymount College, its women's campus in Tarrytown, New York, in June 2007 because of dwindling enrollment and financial difficulties; Discussion of the demands of the United Students Against Sweatshops, a national network of student labor activists.Full Text Word Count:226D

Blood money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on corruption in Russia, which seems to be getting worse. In the latest international "corruption perceptions index" produced by Transparency International (TI), Russia has fallen to rank alongside Niger, Sierra Leone and Albania. A recent survey by Indem, a Russian think-tank, found an enormous hike since 2001 in the number and size of bribes given by young men and their families to avoid conscription and in those paid to get into universities. Indem's most controversial finding was a surge in the volume of bribes paid by businesses, to a total amounting to more than double the federal budget. An exaggeration perhaps; but most businessmen confirm the deterioration. The difference now, says the boss of one building firm, is that bureaucrats take the cash, but don't then interpret the opaque regulations in the way they had promised--the most economically damaging kind of corruption, according to academic studies. Faced with a problem that it cannot credibly deny, the usual Kremlin approach is to say that it is not a problem for Russia alone. But Russian corruption has some peculiar characteristics. It is partly an age-old function of the country's size and poverty. Communism bequeathed little regard for private property or civic duty, and left big networks of patronage dating back to institutions such as the KGB. Next came wholesale privatisation amid weak regulation, and lots of oil money. An optimistic view is that these effects will wear off.Full Text Word Count:1236

Korean Display Makers Give Japanese a Run for the Money. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on a new report from iSuppli that says that Japan's dominance in the display market for screens smaller than 10-inches in diagonal size is being challenged by Korean competitors that are slashing prices and expanding production as of October 2005. According to iSuppli, these companies have focused their efforts on smaller displays after South Korean competitors took over the market for large-sized TFT-LCD panels in the late 1990s. But South Korean suppliers such as Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD have launched aggressive campaigns to win the small side of the market as well with their lower prices and expanded production.Full Text Word Count:372D

Hard Questions from Google. (17 Jun 2006)
Offers a look at questions asked of advertisers by Google Incorporated Chief Executive Officer Eric E. Schmidt at the Association of National Advertisers 2005 conference. Role of Google in targeting advertisements via its business selling AdWords and AdSense; Possibility that advertising revenues from television and newspapers will vanish; Claim that Google provides an automatic return-on-investment measure for marketers; Research conducted by Wachovia Chief Marketing Officer Jim Garrity regarding advertisement effectiveness.Full Text Word Count:708D

Hampshire chief warns against hopes of saving money through early intervention. (17 Jun 2006)
This article deals with the warning issued by Hampshire Council Chief John Coughlan against hopes on saving money through early intervention. Focusing on preventive services for children will not save councils money. He explained that the split of children's and adults' services would remove the comfort of taking money from adult services budgets. They do not like excluding children, but they are faced with huge competing agenda in working with difficult children.Full Text Word Count:217D

Big Waves from "Google Base". (17 Jun 2006)
Speculates on whether Google will succeed on services beyond ad-supported search. Information on the firm's Google Base initiative; Views of Steve Harmon, vice-president for corporate development at local online classifieds site LiveDeal, on Google's new initiative in 2005; Reputation of the company for launching beta project after beta project; Action to be taken by Google to rival eBay's feedback system.Full Text Word Count:1232

Google Unveils Philanthropy Plan Valued at Nearly $1-Billion. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that Google plans to support social causes in the U.S. during the next three years, as of October 2005, as well as put $90-million into a foundation the company is creating. Google also pledged to use the value of 1 percent of its annual profit and 1 percent of the company's stock during the next two decades to support its philanthropic efforts, which are known collectively as Google.org. Google.org will focus on fighting global poverty and solving energy and environmental problems, said Sheryl Sandberg, Google's vice president of global online sales and operations.Full Text Word Count:478D

Amazon.com's Experiment to Raise Money Produces $1.7-Million. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on the fund-raising experiment of Amazon.com, a contest aimed at encouraging customers to donate to 10 charities in the U.S. The charities, mostly small groups that were not well known to the public, raised a combined $1.7-million during the competition, which ran from July 19 to September 30, 2005. That is an impressive figure considering that no single gift could exceed $1,000. DonorsChoose won the competition by raising $790,000 through Amazon's site. Amazon matched that amount, bringing the group's total earnings to $1.6-million. The money from the contest is a significant amount for DonorsChoose, which gives teachers an online forum to post requests for such things as classroom supplies, field-trip money, or funds for special projects.Full Text Word Count:1179

Money for Nothing? (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that in a bold effort to keep children in the classroom, many schools have created incentive programs that reward attendance with money or prizes that range from prepaid gift cards to cars. This fall, Chelsea High School in Chelsea, Massachusetts, began offering students $25 a quarter for perfect attendance. The payoff for a senior--with bonus money thrown in for hitting yearly attendance goals--could be as much as $500. Students receive their checks upon graduation. The program is funded through private donations.Full Text Word Count:530D

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