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...long, giving to charity was an act of blind faith. Then came the Internet and Arthur "Buzz" Schmidt to help givers see whether their money was being well spent. When Schmidt left the private sector a decade ago to raise money for an international development agency, he was stunned by how little number crunching potential donors could do. So he struck out on his own, borrowing 50 shoe boxes of microfilm from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, and in 1996 began posting the financial data of nonprofit organizations on the Web. Three years later, the former agribusiness executive started...
Harvard’s committee on stem cell research includes an expert on moral debates, Arthur I. Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School...
Further, Roosevelt hired William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan to assemble the OSS, a large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated...
...Arthur Valpey, who had a career .294 winning percentage, only coached the Crimson for two years before he was replaced by Lloyd Jordan in 1950. Jordan went on to coach only seven seasons and finished with a .440 winning percentage...
...current IRC office, Arthur said, has sentimental value...