Word: pulpit
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Both Malone and Ford said that the man, who was seated about five rows from the pulpit, is homeless and that he frequents the streets of Harvard Square...
After months of refusing to take any real action for fear of rankling Jeffries supporters on campus, even the City University of New York said last week they would remove Jeffries from his bully pulpit as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department...
What file readers discover is just how pervasive the network of betrayal was. Stasi tentacles extended into the schoolroom, the pulpit, the bedroom, even the confessional: Roman Catholic authorities are investigating indications that penitents' confessions reached the Stasi through hidden microphones or corrupted priests. Stasi technicians bugged homes, telephones, cars and seats in concert halls. The Stasi's "Section 8" dealt with children, requiring principals of every school in the country to keep a file of "dangerous persons" in their classrooms. Teachers filled out forms on "conspicuous" children, some as young as 9, who expressed views critical of the state...
...seek to discuss the issue and it is no wonder that Thernstrom might feel threatened. Yet in the aftermath of his attacks on The Crimson, the effect of shouting "p.c." has been less speech and not more; it has forced students into silence, and merely amplified the professorial bully pulpit that the professor, by profession, already possessed...
Gomes has been a minister of Memorial Church since 1970, and from the pulpit he has seen the University pass through an often chaotic two decades. All the while, he says, the University has remained, as the last lines of "Fair Harvard" would have it, "calm, rising through change and through storm...