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By DEBORAH L. JACOBSALL IN THE TIMING John Hunting started the Beldon Fund in 1982, but in 1998 he devised a 10-year plan to wind it down., Photo: Adam Bird for The New York TimesTRADITIONALLY people who set up private foundations — either during their lifetimes or…

Ted Fishman’s article paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of the future of aging around the world, concluding that “global power rests on how willing a country is to neglect its older citizens.”Longer life is a triumph to be celebrated, not feared. Many older adults want…

27 September  2010Has philanthropy lost “moral clarity,” growing more concerned with the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right?In a speech given on 27 September 2010 at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies,…

JOHN W. CONROYVIETNAM — DANANG,For the last 15 years, retired Beekmantown dairy farmer Mark Conroy has been directing humanitarian development work in Vietnam for the East Meets West Foundation.He only last year stepped down as country director and is now the foundation's senior consultant, heading…

by Gara LaMarche and Deepak BhargavaTwenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America's politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said.First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic stimulus bill…

By ANNE SHERIDANTAOISEACH Brian Cowen has officially opened the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Located on the Clare side of the campus, the 5,000 square metre building was specifically designed to combine the elements of research, performance and teaching by…

Today (21st September 2010) is 'World Alzheimer's Day', a day when people around the globe raise awareness of Alzheimer's and related dementias.Marking the importance of this day, Jim Wells MLA and Chair of the Stormont Health Committee got on board the Fold Brain Bus -…

By JULIA PRESTON MIAMI — Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of…

By NATHAN KOPPELKenneth Bernard Rouse was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty in 1992 of fatally stabbing 63-year-old Hazel Colleen Broadway. Police found her body in a North Carolina convenience store, the knife still in her neck.Nearly two decades later, Mr. Rouse, now…

FARANAAZ PARKER Civil society organisations on Wednesday warned that repressive laws, such as the proposed Protection of Information Bill (POI) would come back to haunt the state further down the line. "A Bill, once it's passed into law, does not stay in the statute books…