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...Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, both based in New York City, adopted anti-terrorism language in their grants agreements last year that critics claimed infringed on academic freedoms. Ford was prompted to do so by criticism that its money paid the bills for anti-Semitic organizations; Rockefeller soon followed suit...
...groups are both generous donors to higher education: Ford gave approximately $41 million to American colleges in 2004, while Rockefeller gave about $15 million. Harvard received $3.65 million from Ford and $3 million from Rockefeller that year, and $3.47 million and $3.21, respectively...
...last January, Ford, which aims to “strengthen democratic values” and “reduce poverty and injustice” and has sponsored research at Harvard on topics such as American Islam, told universities that future grantees would have to agree not to “promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state...
Noting that the current number of faculty advisers is “just over 30,” Ford Professor of Social Studies David Pilbeam, who chairs the advising committee and co-moderated yesterday’s meeting, said he hoped to see an effort to recruit more of them...
...Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year-old in and out of peril and then--bang!--killed her off, but his style is classic: lots of three-actor medium...