Word: podium
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Everywhere he goes, Colin Powell is applauded. In the hall in San Diego where the Republican Party will nominate its presidential candidate about a year from now, the crowd is instantly on its feet as his presence is announced and he bounds down to the podium. He speaks for 50 minutes, without notes, taking the crowd through the cold war, through Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Operation Desert Storm and the occupation of Haiti. Powell, 58, tells moving tales of his upbringing in Harlem and the South Bronx, of sitting in the Hall of St. Catherine...
Naturally, undergraduates eager to learn from the best and the brightest regularly pack the largest auditorium for faculty luminaries' courses. But the edge of the podium is the closest some of these professors ever get to undergraduates. And from the student's vantage point--the back of the crowded lecture hall--Harvard's biggest personalities tend to look pretty small...
HOSPITALIZED. BILLY GRAHAM, 76, silver-maned Christian evangelist; for flu symptoms and a bleeding colon, after slumping to the podium in mid-sermon; in Toronto...
...styled recovery plan, has stopped shooting heroin and started getting drunk at seven o'clock." I should say that Hagar admits to "digressing" in that sentence. Hagar must have the same skewed opinion on the definition of "drunk" as he or she does on "age". Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which he had learned by heart. Hagar ironically states that is was "recited quite beautifully...a morbid, witty short story." Albeit while the author was "drunk?" Will Self was not drunk...
...daily lectures. Nothing new here. Jackson's comment to Mansfield probably summed up most of the audience's sentiment: "After hearing you, I'm not surprised white men are worried about competition." At the conclusion of the program, Jackson commented brusquely that by having Mansfield share the podium, "the Dean [Carnesale] is obviously still trying to give help to white men." Jackson was indignant, and rightly...