Other charges include awarding state contracts, jobs and appointments in exchange for campaign contributions; threatening to withhold state contracts from a children's hospital unless campaign money was "donated," and of course, trying to fire the editors of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board because he didn't like what they wrote - allegedly.
Some people donate them, of course, or try to resell them, but so many books wind up in boxes on the curb, and eventually, in landfills.
Diploma students were typically placed in 'sections' of 15, each comprising students from all sites, taught online by volunteer International Faculty members using donated courses, and later, courses developed specifically for JC HEM.
The back story: A sugar magnate donated the course and park in 1919 to the good people of Kauai.
These critiques likely also are a function of the donated nature of the courses, and the limited staff time available to tailor course content to unique contexts so that the curriculum was not tailored specifically to the learners' needs.
The syllabus of each donated course was assessed by the JC HEM Academic Committee to ensure that it was at the appropriate level and compatible with the wider objectives of both the Diploma program and the initiative as a whole.
As for Mandelson, I never cease to wonder at his brass neck; it should be donated in due course to one of the South Kensington museums.
The biggest, and most obvious, Establishment figure donating in Q3 was, of course, Oprah, (#14), who hosted an A-list fundraiser for Barack Obama at her Montecito estate and donated $2,300 to his campaign, the max allowed for the primary season (those giving $4,600 also gave to the general election funds, should their candidate make it that far).
Martina Rupp, a spokeswoman in Basel for Roche, said the firm had donated five million treatment courses of Tamiflu to the W.H.O. in 2006 for a "rapid response stockpile" that is available on 24 hours notice.
