Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president to influence the debate. Nearly seven years after taking office, Rudenstine has replaced the last vestiges of the administration left by his predecessor, Derek C. Bok, and implemented many of his initial goals through a maniacal devotion to the capital campaign. Again the time has come to plan...
When it comes to using the clout of a Harvard president to sway public policy, Rudenstine's critics have often said he is no Derek Bok, who seemed to spend more time in Congressional chambers than Massachusetts halls...
...bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president to influence the debate. * Nearly seven years after taking office, Rudenstine has replaced the last vestiges of the administration left by his predecessor, Derek C. Bok, and implemented many of his initial goals through a maniacal devotion to the capital campaign. Again the time has come to plan...
When it comes to using the clout of a Harvard President to sway public policy, Rudenstine's critics have often said he is no Derek Bok, who seemed to spend more time in Congressional chambers than Massachusetts halls...
...Liberal Racism (Viking; $21.95), Jim Sleeper argues that liberals' flirtation with race-based politics has exacerbated racial divisions and weakened the left's clout. "Liberalism no longer curbs discrimination," he writes. "It invites it. It does not expose racism; it recapitulates and, sometimes, reinvents it." Some of Sleeper's chosen targets for rebuke can mystify, but others are worthy, such as the often patronizing treatment of blacks as victims or the cynical redrawing of legislative maps to ensure the election of minorities to public office. Sleeper, a self-described liberal, calls on blacks and whites to "let race...