Word: pulpit
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...applaud our peers at Harvard and at more than 70 other colleges and universities who rallied on the Day of Action to preserve affirmative action. Further, we urge Rudenstine to continue to use (and use further) his bully pulpit, explaining the defense for affirmative action in a way that only a well-respected member of the academy can. April...
...vision of an American successstory. The son of a cranberry farmer, Gomes'father offered a tepid response when he learnedthat his son wanted to be a preacher. But sensingthat he had found his life's vocation, Gomespursued the path he felt destined to. And, seeinghim at the pulpit, it is hard to imagine him doinganything else...
...coalition's leaders said Rudenstine'spersonal involvement was key--the Harvard namemaking his personal soapbox a bully pulpit forinfluencing lawmakers...
...applaud our peers at Harvard and at more than 70 other colleges and universities who rallied on the Day of Action to preserve affirmative action. Further, we urge Rudenstine to continue to use (and use more) his bully pulpit, explaining the defense for affirmative action in a way that only a well-respected member of the academy can. All affirmative action efforts must also start earlier in Head Start, elementary, junior high and high school. More resources must be put to basic education and motivation, teacher salaries and basic supplies...
Luckily for would-be male cross-dressers everywhere, courageous male authority figures like Rudy Giuliani have condoned transvestitism from the moral pulpit of elected office. Giuliani's appearance last March could be the watershed in the popular acceptance of male cross-dressing. That's not to say I expect to see Marty in a dress for the next Ec10 lecture (though I dare him to); rather, opposition to cross-dressing in schools and elsewhere should, and I think will, dissipate...