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...Aside from commending the soon-to-be lieutenants and ensigns, President Faust will use her pulpit at the ROTC ceremony to decry the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, which precludes homosexuals from openly serving in the military...
...preliminary report. It is incumbent upon Dean Hammonds, who take office on June 1, to restore the sense that Gen Ed is guided by a unified vision of global leadership and engagement. If the program hopes to be successful, Hammonds must use her influence, wielding the power of the pulpit, to infuse Gen Ed with a coherent set of philosophical underpinnings and a truly substantive notion of education...
...There he was introduced to black liberation theology, which in the late 1960s was emerging as a more rigorous, if not radical, reevaluation of the role of African Americans in the country's history, with the church as confessional, refuge and bully pulpit. Much of it was a reaction to the Black Power Movement and the Nation of Islam, which questioned the compatibility of blackness with Christianity. "Blacks coming out of the '60s were no longer ashamed of being black people, nor did they have to apologize for being Christian. Because many persons in the African-American community were teasing...
...child, Brown internalized the values of his father, who used his pulpit to combat poverty among his parishioners and support missionary work overseas. Brown has consistently advocated a bigger aid budget, fairer trading regimes for developing countries, and a commitment to the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Long involved with Africa, he is particularly exercised about the crisis in Zimbabwe, where his father, who died in 1998, had friends who opposed white minority rule. Though plainly outraged by the delay in announcing the result of the presidential vote in Zimbabwe, Brown seems keen to avoid any accusations of colonial-style...
...Last month Obama came under fire for comments made by his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright from the pulpit over the years, including calling on his parish to "God damn America," and labeling the country the "U.S. of KKK A." Obama responded with an eloquent speech on race and the furor died down. This time, though, giving an intellectual speech is not going to easily solve the problem. Either way, Obama is going to have to find a way to speak to working-class white voters, if not before the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, than certainly in the general...