Word: granted
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...conferences, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson foundation, are being organized by Radcliffe President Matina Horner and psychologist Virginia O'Leary, a former officer at the American Psychological foundation and a visiting scholar at Radcliffe. The goal of the conference, according to Horner, is to "get the very best people together...to think in new ways about a whole range of issues...
...what makes one a Jew has been discussed for ages by Jews of all sects. An authoritative determination by the religious right that would indeed assert the "unworthiness of non-orthodox beliefs" affects most American Jews directly, both by denying the validity of their faith and failing to grant the privileges of automatic entry, residence and citizenship to their converts. The territorial conflict is a matter of internal Israeli politics whose resolution only directly affects citizens of Israel. Certainly all who love Israel want the speediest and best solution. But it is naive to think there is an easy solution...
...legal counsel Carl-August Fleischhauer told a U.N. committee the United States was violating the 1947 U.S.-U.N. Headquarters Agreement, which requires the host country to grant visas to people invited by the United Nations...
...opinion that the host country was and is under an obligation to grant the visa request of the chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization which has been granted observer status by the general Assembly," Fleischhauer said...
Ultimately, of course, it is hard to find unequivocal grounds on which to condemn the clubs. Benign discrimination on the basis of sex is commonplace in our society: Radcliffe denies its externship programs programs and grant money (as well as its diploma) to males, the varsity football squad rejects aspiring female linebackers and neither sex is allowed in the other's respective public bathrooms. Militant smear tactics are the last refuge of those unable to make a compelling legal argument that will distinguish between the Fly Club and things as harmless as Wellesley College, both institutions that deny their benefits...