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Other fellows this year include Richard P. Taub, the Klapper professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago; and two scholars under a grant from the Ford Foundation to support scholars of Africa: Madupe Gloria Labode of lowa State University and Ronald Kent Richardson of Clark University...
...other business, the council passed a resolution giving a $500 grant to each House committee and a $2,000 grant to the First-Year Caucus...
...This week, the President visits Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, building the case for Congress to grant him powers to negotiate trade pacts without the shackles of pork-barrel politics: the so-called Fast Track. Where Reagan spooked Americans with tales of toppling dominoes, Clinton may rely on the specter of Mercosur. The trade association combining the booming economies of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is fast emerging as an alternative to U.S.-dominated trade pacts, and has pledged to sign a free trade pact with the European Union...
Chaplin, the Hugh Grant-ish twinkie from The Truth About Cats & Dogs, makes an admirable about-face to become this brooding, swanky manipulator. As in his previous film, however, he projects a wheezy lack of mystery: a bad move in a role once played by Montgomery Clift. Finney and Smith are, as always, convincing, but they show no new sides of their prodigious talents. Smith's Lavinia, in particular, is a near-transplant of her kooky chaperone from A Room With a View...
With age and reputation come a host of other responsibilities--committee work, mentoring--that can take time away from teaching and research. In addition, the grant process has become more competitive, making it harder and more time-consuming for faculty to find outside support...