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Unlike a public corporation, a church is not required to publicly list its assets or overall revenue. Moreover, diocese officials, citing their First Amendment right to religious freedom, often decline to disclose details about church finances. And several dioceses have persuaded plaintiffs to accept reduced settlements, on the grounds that they could not afford to pay more...
...management trainee in a department store. Why? For the money. The job paid $24,000, double the salary of the editorial-assistant position I really wanted at a magazine. Not surprisingly, I hated it. After three miserable months, I crawled to New York City to accept a different editorial job that paid even less. I could do so only because my parents had sold half the property under our home so I'd get through college without needing any student loans...
...married and moved back to the United States. Through personal connections, he found that the University of Miami School of Law would allow him a second chance, unlike most schools, which wouldn’t accept a student who had failed at another institution. He continued with journalism in Miami, too, working as a reporter with the Herald to pay for his education...
...impact of the Cold War was even felt among Harvard’s non-academic personnel. In November 1951 William J. Bingham ’16, a former director of athletics, suddenly resigned as chair of the Faculty Committee on Athletics in order to accept a position in what he termed “vital defense work” in Washington...
...Sharon's plan appears to be to wear down the resistance of Palestinian militants until they're prepared to accept Israel's terms. But many Israelis have expressed surprise and alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously...