Timed to kick off London fashion week, the invitation featured an image of Campbell sashaying down a catwalk, her black gown slit all the way up the thigh, next to the benefit's title: Fashion Against Ebola.
City officials, who had requested the change, said it would help more children benefit from Title I, the nation's largest education-aid program, by lowering the poverty threshold for individual schools to qualify for assistance.
It was performed in the original Italian, without the benefit of titles.
"You have all these women now who benefited from Title IX and they have tremendous confidence," said Sue Rodin, a sports agent who runs her own sports marketing and management firm and who helped form a networking group called WISE, for Women in Sports and Events.
In effect, Sydney will offer a grand stage for a generation of women who have reaped the benefits of Title IX, followed the lead of individual stars and team champions and carved out an even larger presence for women in the Olympic movement.
Specifically, the SEC issued "No-Action" letters, plus Crowdfunder benefitted from Title 2 of the JOBS Act, which allows companies to now publicly solicit funding.
What if studies find few benefits of Title I or other longstanding government programs focused on disadvantaged children?
I benefitted from Title IX and the feminist movement and was honored to play my own part in the female sports narrative by competing on the 1994 Winter Olympic Team.
Generals, business luminaries and stalwarts of the civil service may benefit from a title or letters after their names, but those who are their own men and women saw that there was far more to lose than to gain.
Medicare and Social Security, the two giant entitlement programs for seniors that cost more than $1 trillion a year and account for about a third of the federal budget, will be traded off against programs that benefit the young: Title I funding for low-income school-age students; Head Start; food stamps; child nutrition; children's health; and vaccines.
Does splitting the title benefit shareholders?
