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Davis, who had not seen the chapel until the elevator was installed, led the fight to make the building accessible for physically disabled people. Leaning on a podium to steady himself, he said that the renovations were "one of the few times that a Harvard graduate school has made a systematic effort to take advantage of the capabilities of those with disabilities...
...more than just lack of initiative, though, that holds most undergraduates at podium's distance from academia. Finding a professor's office in the bowels of Widener is the easy part; it can be a whole lot trickier making it to the other side of the wooden door. The standard procedure among tenured professors is to allot but one office hour per week to undergraduates; sometimes, this thin slice of time is shared by graduate students as well. Even worse, professors often don't mention this office hour and their office location in class--much less advertise them...
...mayor did not take questions and turned the podium over to his wife following his brief statement. Attention has been focused on Effi Barry in part because the mayor was lured to his arrest by another woman...
...second session of the Congress of People's Deputies had barely begun last week when a bald, stoop-shouldered man hesitantly made his way to the front of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Mikhail Gorbachev motioned for Deputy Andrei Sakharov to step up to the podium, then settled back in his seat, not quite sure what to expect...
...immediate release of all political prisoners or warning audiences abroad that Gorbachev was amassing too much power. He clashed with the Soviet leader on the opening day of the Congress last May, saying he would support him as President only after an open debate, and was dismissed from the podium on the final day when he tried to outline his own political program...