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...spot for a son on the university football team in exchange for a contribution. Not long ago, a wealthy man offered the University of Miami a mere $2 million in exchange for a new building to be named for him, a lifetime appointment to the faculty and regular round-trip airfares to Miami. The university declined...
...coach fares in half for families traveling with children ages 2 to 17 in the 48 contiguous states. American topped that by offering 50% off all advance-purchase coach seats on flights in the same region. Most other major carriers swiftly followed American's lead. The reductions cut the round-trip price of New York-Los Angeles flights to just $200 while fares between Atlanta and Chicago fell...
Other benefits include four round-trip tickets on Continental Airlines costing less than $100 each way and free subscriptions to the money management magazine Connections geared specifically towards college students...
...doctors in March offering to serve as middleman between patients seeking kidney transplants and a Chinese military hospital in Nanjing that performs the operation. The letter said the kidneys would come from live "volunteers," implying that they would be paid donors. The fee for the kidney, the operation and round-trip airfare: $12,800. With that, the Hong Kong government moved to put into effect legislation that would ban all buying and selling of organs. The Hong Kong case underscored already widespread concern about the 2,000 or so transplants performed annually in the People's Republic, where many...
...least one case, points to the possibility of unlawful conflict of interest. During a three-day ski trip to Aspen, Colo., last December, Sununu in effect received free lift tickets, lodging and meals in return for speaking at an annual ski-industry conference. In addition, the $802 round-trip airfare for his wife Nancy was paid for by the American Ski Federation. The federation is a Washington-based lobbying arm for the ski industry -- not a nonprofit educational group as claimed on documents released by the White House...