Word: proclaiming
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...many years, Harvard's keynote Commencement address has served as a formidable bully pulpit. World leaders, philosophers and renowned alumni have used the opportunity to comment on the past and to proclaim their visions for the future...
...both the Israeli and the Palestinian sides, now, the political initiative is increasingly in the hands of those least inclined to make peace. Arafat and Sharon both proclaim their desire to implement the Mitchell Report, but their interpretations of the report's proposals are so divergent that in the absence of a referee decisively laying down the law, both sides' stated support for Mitchell's proposals has little meaning in reality. That leaves the Bush administration having to weigh the merits of staying on the sidelines as violence potentially spins out of control against the relative probability of failure...
...sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After all, this is about much more than prestige. Over its four-year cycle, a summer Olympic Games could generate $10 billion in spending...
...sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After all, this is about much more than prestige. Over its four-year cycle, a summer Olympic Games could generate $10 billion in spending...
Bush should again proclaim an international education week this year and work to make it bigger and better. Much more remains to be done. Bush should broaden and implement an international education policy appropriate for the world in which we live and the world we share. He should make this agenda a high priority overseen by a high-level White House official...