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...beaten by police breaking up a strike, and as a university student he came under the influence of a Communist philosopher and a painter who regarded Stalin as insufficiently revolutionary. In 1962 Guzman was given a philosophy post at Huamanga University in Ayacucho, where he used his teaching pulpit to indoctrinate students. He was profoundly influenced by Mao's Cultural Revolution, which he witnessed firsthand. "At some point," says journalist Gustavo Gorriti, "he persuaded himself that he was not only a qualified leader but had both a national and a world responsibility." Scholars differ about Guzman's intellectual gifts...
Vincent, who shepherded the sport in a troubled year of spiraling salaries and shrinking attendance, thought himself uniquely able to determine "the best interests of baseball" -- which meant using his bully pulpit to intimidate players, ignore the owners and realign teams against their wishes. He confused himself with his job. So last week did his media apologists. "The commissionership is dead," intoned the New York Times, which had not said similar last rites over the U.S. presidency when Nixon resigned...
...same principle applies to religion: by the time women climbed into the pulpit, the real action in the religion business had shifted to televangelists in their TV studios. Or the military: just as women finally got to participate in combat-like roles, the old heroic concept of war was replaced by televised fireworks and the mass bulldozing of enemy infantry...
...1980S WERE THE WORST OF times for critics of that debt-propelled decade, they were the best of times for Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley. From his pulpit at the head of the Journal's editorial page, Bartley preached the gospel of tax cuts and deregulation that became known as Reaganomics and hurled anathemas at heretics who argued that the government had a positive role to play in the U.S. economy. While Bartley's polemics sometimes clashed with facts reported in the Journal's news columns, which were full of tales of greed and corruption in the executive suite...
...fine thing that our elected leaders have decided to use the bully pulpit to encourage private charity. As a taxpayer, I don't even mind seeing a few of my dollars going to pay for the propaganda. The trouble is that these $ same elected leaders have used the same bully pulpit to poison the minds of citizens against the mechanism of selflessness and social generosity that is at these leaders' actual disposal: the government. A free society deciding to tax itself to make itself a better society -- that's the real united...