Sunday, October 12, 2008

Robert Henreich - Charity seeks to shed its RI chapter - Boston Globe

Charity seeks to shed its RI chapter - Boston Globe
PROVIDENCE, R.I.— A charity organization that helps to grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions is pushing to revoke the charter of its Rhode Island chapter, accusing the local group of failing to disclose the $118,000

Charity concert in honour Italian tenor Pavarotti held in Petra - Eflux Media
Amman - A charity concert for Luciano Pavarotti kicked off at the site of the ancient Jordanian city of Petra on Sunday night as a tribute to his music and his humanitarian work, Jordanian state-run media reported. The concert for the Italian tenor

Kocur playfully 'drops 'em' during charity game vs. Adrian College - Ann Arbor News Blog
The Adrian Daily Telegram's Josh Evans reports that the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Association's visit to Adrian College (and the Adrian College "Friends of Adrian" team) to raise money for the school's men's and women's ice hockey teams gave fans

Leading artists urge nation to join fight to save Titian works - Times Online
Sixty of Britain’s most renowned artists have written to The Times today calling for two of the country’s most important paintings to be saved for the nation. Two enormous works by Titian, the Renaissance Master, are on the verge of being sold on

ANALYSIS-World looks for new leaders as crisis outgrows G7 - Forbes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The credit crisis has left the Group of Seven club of rich nations looking like a 20th century relic unable to tackle a modern financial disaster, and its larger siblings may be no better suited for the task. Over the past 48

Urgent talks to avert rise in council tax - Times Online
Town hall and charity leaders will meet Treasury ministers this week to thrash out emergency measures to stave off council tax rises, missed wage payments and service cuts as a result of the Icelandic banks crisis. Council chiefs have also arranged a

Presidential campaigns try to taint rivals by association - Houston Chronicle
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Scraping for any advantage in the presidential campaign's waning days, John McCain and Barack Obama are introducing voters to a new cast of characters. McCain would like people to know about a former 1960s radical and a corrupt

Fact Check: Camps highlight foes' old associates - International Herald Tribune
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. : Scraping for any advantage in the presidential campaign's waning days, John McCain and Barack Obama are introducing voters to a new cast of characters. McCain would like people to know about a former 1960s radical and a corrupt

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