Mr. Grant said that the settlement with Siebel achieved two goals: It cured dubious practices from the past, and will help prevent those practices from recurring.
When Ernie, who has become a petty racketeer, is told that his mother has been arrested for trafficking in stolen goods, he has an instant's disbelief: "They got her inside, you mean — pinched?" Grant says that line with more fervor than any other line he ever delivered.
Ms Grant said that by criminalising those who use prostitutes through her proposed Purchase of Sex Bill, demand for prostitution would be reduced.
The patent grant says that if you're going to use the software we've released under it, you lose the patent license from us if you sue us for patent infringement.
And some East Harlem activists have complained that their community has not gotten its fair share of government grants, saying that Mr. Rangel has focused on the predominantly black Central Harlem.
Granted, saying that "Wife," about the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, is about American life is a bit of a stretch, but one could make the lawyerly argument that the play qualifies because it is told from the perspective of the American playwright, who is portrayed as a character in the play.
Ms. Jones-Grant said that she had and added that she planned to begin taking medication.
Arun Majumdar, director of the agency, which made six of the grants, said that although there was a public announcement of the names of the entities that got the money, he could not say who had been cut off.
Florence Howe, the founder of the Feminist Press, which received one of the foundation's first women's studies grants, said that Dr. Chamberlain's background as an economist defined her approach to philanthropy.
