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Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner said that the University was undecided about whether it would sign an "anti-obscenity" pledge to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. An amendment, proposed by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and passed by Congress last year, requires all...
Steiner said the University has not yet signed the pledge, but he said that Harvard--which receives $200,000 annually from the NEA--would not rule that possibility out. Similarly, officials at the American Repertory Theatre said that the theatre will not decide whether to accept or reject about $18...
In addition, the NEA expanded on a detailed anti-obscenity pledge that recipients have been required to sign by setting up a process to investigate charges of obscenity from "any responsible source." At first blink, the procedure sounded so cumbersome and so fraught with potential for misuse by accusers seeking...
The White House has been smarting because it has been outmaneuvered by Democrats. First the President outraged many Republicans by backing away from his "no new taxes" pledge. Then, after both sides agreed to submit budget proposals simultaneously in late July, the Administration plan leaked and Republicans, seeing that it...
Despite De Klerk's pledge to build a "new South Africa," at least some elements of his police force continue to behave as they did in the bad old days. Whether they are acting on their own or under orders, De Klerk faces a difficult challenge: to restrain the police...