News Briefing: Americans Still Giving, Despite Economic Meltdown

• Angelina Jolie carefully crafts her image as a philanthropist and devoted mother.  [New York Times]

• Resilient Americans are still giving to nonprofits, despite the economic meltdown.  [Associated Press]

• A DARA report finds that U.S. aid is not always apolitical.  [Washington Post]

• The popular host of public radio's "The Infinite Mind" earned over $1 million giving marketing lectures for drug makers, ties that were not mentioned on the program.  [New York Times]

• The director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is leaving to become the president of the Royal College of Art in London.  [New York Times]

• The drastic measures under consideration to rescue MOCA have shocked many arts leaders.  [Los Angeles Times]