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...company owned by Jefferson's wife, Andrea Green-Jefferson, and to a legal firm where one of the couple's daughters works. Jefferson has not been charged and has vigorously denied any wrongdoing. Two associates in the shady deal, however - former congressional aide Brett Pfeffer and iGate CEO Vernon Jackson - pleaded guilty to bribery charges and have agreed to cooperate with investigators...
Venerable Mount Vernon, Va., home of the nation's first President, will next month offer its own blend of entertainment and education. Workers and curators are putting the finishing touches on a $60 million, 66,700-sq.-ft. museum and visitors center. When they open, on Oct. 27, half the museum will have traditional displays: maps, artifacts, Martha's jewelry. The other side, however, will offer a heavy dose of showmanship. A scrolling cartoon of Washington's life will be projected on one wall. A theater will show an action flick about Washington at war. The audience's seats will...
...with spare body parts left over from the manufacture of the Washington models, joined by a short film about how the models were made. Think of it as the ultimate museum label. Instead of a simple placard that reads something like WASHINGTON ATOP A STUFFED HORSE, the new Mount Vernon center will use its CSI room to grab visitors with a narrative backstory about the displays they...
Money is the major obstacle keeping more museums from going the Mount Vernon route. Government funding for arts institutions has dried up, and a migration in philanthropy from historic preservation to social causes is leaving museums behind. Colonial Williamsburg was born as a historical site in 1926 with funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. But when a modern Rockefeller equivalent, Warren Buffett, recently made his big gift, it was to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's disease hunters, not to museums...
...sinister, scary, evil plot," Lt. Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department told TIME.com. "We're continuing our investigation and looking at other possible targets." Vernon notes that because Rutterschmidt allegedly met her first victim in a Hungarian church, the LAPD is putting out feelers to the local Hungarian community for further leads. "The first and second incident were six years apart, so it's hard to believe there haven't been other victims." Both women are being held at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, Vernon says, and investigators have impounded Golay's new Mercedes...