Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Charles, now the 9th Earl Spencer, was introduced to most of the world from a pulpit in Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6, he did not seem to be a man innately diffident. As he paid tribute to his sister's glorious, pained life in the most watched eulogy in history, he inveighed against a rapacious press, denounced, however subtly, the monarchy's benighted stoicism and emerged suddenly as a controversial hero in the drama of Princess Diana's death--a powerful executor of her spiritual will...
...coordination" as it is euphemistically called-is at the heart of Project ADAPT's mission. Frustration with trying to bringing Harvard's scattered schools closer together already caused the project's first director to resign this summer. * Rudenstine's brightest star this year should prove to be his bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president...
...coordination" as it is euphemistically called-is at the heart of Project ADAPT's mission. Frustration with trying to bringing Harvard's scattered schools closer together already caused the project's first director to resign this summer. * Rudenstine's brightest star this year should prove to be his bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president...
...coordination" as it is euphemistically called-is at the heart of Project ADAPT's mission. Frustration with trying to bringing Harvard's scattered schools closer together already caused the project's first director to resign this summer. * Rudenstine's brightest star this year should prove to be his bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president...
...affirmative-action speech in which he vowed to "mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...