Word: lecterns
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...guiding principles of self-reliance). The cries of hawkers selling vegetables and fruits in the alleyway below drift through the grimy windows, but the worshippers have eyes only for the front of the room, where a plump, middle-aged preacher in a tight gray suit stands at a small lectern. Behind him is a large wooden cross draped with a white cotton cloth. Several pictures of Jesus hang on the walls, and Chinese characters phonetically spelling out Emanuel--"Yi-man-nei-yi"--frame an archway...
Summers, uncharacteristically tie-less and without an aide in sight, declined to speak from behind the lectern, instead sitting down on the table at the center of the lecture hall. He said that while he didn’t have an answer to Dershowitz’s question, he had learned that “not every position benefits from its occupant speaking freely and openly...
...stands nervously in front of a lectern, adopting the rote singsong of a 13-year-old giving her Bat Mitzvah speech. She thanks the rabbi and the relatives who came from Florida, Australia and "all the way from Century Village." She praises a Jewish upbringing that on holidays "gave me the opportunity to dress like a doily and sit in the corner in silent anger while the rest of my family discusses in a whisper whether or not I'm a lesbian." Rebecca Drysdale, it so happens, is gay (and does a nifty Dr. Seuss parody about how the butch...
...Harvard College is to offer the best introductory courses in the world, this misguided policy should be changed.The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administration defends the eight-year limit for two reasons. First, it prevents Harvard from exploiting post-doctoral fellows by indefinitely chaining them to the lectern, which, FAS claims, is not in the fellows’ best interest even if they want to teach at Harvard for longer. This paternalistic argument is misguided. Lecturers, who are fully aware of their relatively low compensation levels, can make their own decisions about their career choices. Those teachers who love...
...make his message more accessible, Christie rarely wears a dog collar and refuses to deliver his Sunday sermons from the raised stone pulpit in the church, preferring instead to speak from a lectern that's at the same height as the congregation. But "there's a tension between what I will and will not do," Christie says. "We are not a religious version of Tesco," the British supermarket chain. That means Whitney Houston songs at funerals are acceptable, but New Age drumming groups in the church hall or Buddhist marriage vows are not. "We're out there competing with everyone...