Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine took the podium, but only to praise Bok as an outstanding leader in higher education over the last several decades...
Tsongas, a former Massachusetts senator, shared the June Fourth Memorial podium with an exiled Tiananmen Square participant and a Harvard post-doctorate fellow to decry the Chinese government's lack of respect for human rights--and the United States' weak stand against such injustice...
Having had a king, ambassador, poet, professor and economist at the podium, Harvard decided to extend an invitation to a baron. As a result, Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington addressed the 336th Commencement exercises...
Chaos reigns. Then Bob Strauss, the party's guru in chief, comes onto the podium. For President, he intones in a syrupy drawl, we must nominate a great American and my fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we should select one of our young Democratic chargers, someone whose depth and experience compare favorably with Quayle's lack of same. American voters like to diffuse authority and have scant respect for Quayle. The Democratic ticket will...
Unfortunately, he has not had an appropriate podium for addressing the nation on non-military issues. Harvard could provide him with...