Word: granting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That its cultural autonomy should be recognized in a place like France ahead of Australia is perhaps not as surprising as it might appear. For a country that didn't grant its indigenous inhabitants the vote until 1967, modern Australia has sat uncomfortably with its ancient traditions. "European countries can embrace Aboriginal art without any sense of shame or guilt," says Chris Sarra, chair of the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board. "They don't have a stake in that, whereas Australia does...
...would do together.” The opening of the center in September will end a decades-long student effort to secure College support for women’s space on campus. A student-run women’s space opened in the Quad in 1971 with a $600 grant from the Radcliffe Union. But in 1990, more than 1,000 students petitioned for a College-sponsored center, arguing that the Quad space was too small and too far from Harvard Yard. Leaders of campus women’s groups called for a three-room center in a Yard dorm...
Bolden-Kramer will use her grant to develop a curriculum for young lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women of color in the San Francisco Bay area. Zhang will coordinate a legal aid program for the London Chinatown community. And Lee will expand a childcare and education program at the Codman Square Community Health Center in Dorchester, so that the children of patients will be looked after while their parents receive treatment...
...seeing civilians targeted en masse that made Grant take up shooting. "9/11 was a defining moment for me," says the computer consultant. "I thought, if things are going to get this crazy, I'd rather know how to use a gun than not." David regrets the passing of an Australia that, in time of war, could draw on a huge pool of citizen marksmen. "We lost that after Vietnam," he says. With it went not just skills but a cast of mind. "Given the choice," says Ian, "I would always employ a shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter...
...decide on a plan of action at that meeting. Instead, Petersen e-mailed the members of SAC the following morning asking them to vote first on whether to reopen consideration of the awards for TFs, and second whether to grant the award to another candidate, according to Petersen’s e-mail...