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...sharpest zingers are directed at the National Endowment (a funder of Sullivan's show) and at what Sullivan calls "the process of both censorship and self-censorship," as when the imaginary troupe's artistic director cites the works she dare not mount except in bowdlerized form. In the play within the play, the actual inspector arrives just in time to see the fiasco and adores it, despite getting knocked unconscious in the melee: she perceives a deep expression of the decline of Western civilization and a succession of welcome bows to political correctness...
CASUALTY 3: Education 4 Action. This Radcliffe public service organization is a funder of last resort for dozens of undergraduate activities. It has provided critical funding for Alternative Spring Break, Phillips Brooks House summer programs and minority student publications, among other valuable activities...
Says one Harvard alumni fundraiser, "In someways the University is very circumspect aboutthat. If you were a big funder and tried to sayyou didn't like such-and-such, you'd get the coldshoulder...
John F. Ramsey, associate director of theBoston Foundation, the sole funder of the BostonAIDS Consortium, which combines policy and careissues, said that there has been a recent trendtoward giving to AIDS organizations and thatdonors would be attracted by a program like theInstitute...
Under the agreement, which is considered to be the first Harvard- CIA project in recent years, the agency will forego its normal contract procedures with the result that it will be known publicly as the funder and will not ask for pre-publication review of the results...