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Goodgame uses the same common-sense method to analyze the Clinton plan's chances of being passed. "Hardly anything a President does goes through Congress the way it is presented," he notes. "The question is whether Clinton will be able to use the bully pulpit to preserve the essentials of his plan. He's been a very good salesman so far." As the economic drama unfolds in Washington, we are delighted to have Dan covering all the acts...
...double-standard in today's academia. While faith on God has been purged from education in the name of religious freedom, disbelief in God has been evangelicized in its place. Science classes, once the haven of facts and theories backed by empirical evidence, should not become the pulpit, even inadvertently, for the preaching of atheism. Purely subjective arguments, like those that the evolution of life was "unplanned" and without purposeful design, should be recognized for what they are: religious theories, not scientific facts...
...John Tillinger's intimate, immaculate staging, The Last Yankee plays like a last contrition -- with a bit of sermon thrown in. Miller has been in the pulpit so long that he can't completely shake the preacher's jeremiad cadences from his voice, even when he wants to whisper. When Leroy says, "Maybe I am a failure, but in my opinion no more than the rest of this country," his private anguish is being overrun by Miller's political agenda, like a radio sonata interrupted by a campaign commercial...
...After the organization that has staged the parade for more than 150 years refused to permit gay groups to march under their own banner, Mayor David Dinkins handed control of the parade to an ad hoc group that favored including the gays. John Cardinal O'Connor used his pulpit to decry Dinkins' transmogrification of "the religious to the political." A judge will rule whether the parade is a religious or public event...
Does all this mean that the scientists, conservationists and cleanup crews can pack their bags and go home? Hardly. Conservation groups such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund have been using the spill in the Shetlands as a bully pulpit to raise public awareness of the very real danger of the world's overreliance on oil. And, of course, a dramatic event in which animals are threatened makes fund raising easier. Greenpeace ads featuring oil-coated birds and soliciting donations appeared in British papers four days after the accident...