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However, it is possible to do a rough estimate given the known factors, which are the lighting, the professor's age, the relative level of the podium to the seats and the number of rows in the auditorium...
Sackler Museum: Almost on the level of the Science Center, but not quite. It's just as dark in the seating area, but the rows aren't sloped as much and the professor is up on a small podium...
...First Lady strode to the podium at the party convention and proceeded to defend a broad view of family and community, few in the audience were surprised. "When we speak of families," she said, "we mean extended families. We mean the neighbors, even the community itself." Yet this was not Hillary Rodham Clinton's oft-repeated defense of a certain African proverb that by now even the village idiot has heard a few too many times. These words were uttered by Barbara Bush at the far-right, fanatic 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Four years later, Bob Dole...
When the President finally came to the podium, nearly an hour behind schedule, the field of supporters filled a converted little league diamond with a sea of red, white and blue Clinton/Gore '96 and Kerry '96 signs...
...school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...