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Elizabeth Hurley is having one of those years. After surviving a mugging by a gang of feral girls in London in November and the indiscretion of her beau, Hugh Grant, in June, she discovered last week that her flat had been burgled. But hey--maybe the burglary will win the actress some much needed headlines...
...tens of thousands of grants that the NEA has made in its 30-year history, perhaps a dozen have excited serious controversy and only two--to the Mapplethorpe show and Serrano--have brought it to the verge of abolition. Significantly, neither case involved a direct grant by the nea to the artist. Serrano got his $15,000 of public money as an award from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, which the NEA had given a grant to distribute as it thought fit. All the same, it is obvious from this debacle that the NEA should not have set itself...
Since it was founded in 1965, the NEH has awarded $2.9 billion in some 51,000 fellowships and grants, and its Challenge Grants program, in place since 1977, has generated more than $1.3 billion in nonfederal aid for American libraries, museums, universities and colleges. Its net of activities reaches very wide. It funds the study and publication of essential archives, like the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain and Dwight Eisenhower. (Twenty-eight volumes of Washington's papers alone have appeared so far.) It has given more than $1 million to a projected...
...into block grants for other purposes,we wanted to make sure he realized it wasimportant for the local government to work withthe state," he said. "We were pointing out thathere's a block grant that's working...
...awarded a prestigious McArthur "genius" grant...