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Search results for "Franklin Graham" ...

  • "Charity Starts at Top"

    Certain charities have been paying their executives "excessive salaries" despite federal laws designed to prohibit such an act, the Observer reports. Loosely enforced rules and a lack of staffing in the IRS office that audits nonprofits allows many of the large payouts to go unnoticed.

    Tags: David Cerullo; Franklin Graham; Inspiration Networks; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse; City of Light

    By Ames Alexander; Tim Funk

    Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)

    2009

  • Lost In America

    CBS News 60 Minutes explores "how the politics of immigration policy made it remarkably easy for members of terror cells to enter the United States on temporary visas as tourists or students and simply disappear into American society." The report reveals that nearly half of the seven million illegal immigrants in the United States entered the country on temporary visas and never left. Although in 1996 the Congress passed a bill that mandated that the INS set up a computerized entry-exit system to track aliens entering and leaving the country, its implementation failed as a result of "business concerns" voiced by border cities' chambers of commerce.

    Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; terrorism; Sept. 11; INS; border patrols; World Trade Center; Pentagon; temporary visas; international students; aliens; Muslims

    By Steve Kroft;L. Franklin Devine;Graham Messick;Trevor Nelson;Kay Lim;Dana Miller;Carolyn McEwen

    CBS News 60 Minutes

    2001

  • Blacks & Whites; Can We All Get Along?

    The Indianapolis Star reports about race relations in the Indianapolis area. The week-long series looks at discrimination and interaction between races from elementary school to work life to social events to interracial relationships.

    Tags: CAR minorities racism race relations survey demographics

    By Kim L. Hooper;Andrea Neal;James L. Patterson Jr.;Bill Theobald;Diane Penner;Lynn Ford;Mary Beth Schneider;Rebecca Buckman;Linda Graham Caleca;Mike Nichols;Kathy Whyde Jesse;David J. Shaffer;John Shaughnessy;Gregory Weaver;Marc D. Allan;Mike Chappell;Mark J. Rochester;Steve Hall;Joyce M. Kelly;Erica Franklin

    Indianapolis Star

    1993