Word: pulpits
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...Harvard’s president, Lawrence H. Summers has used his bully pulpit to defend affirmative action, criticize anti-Semitism and promote public service...
...heartening to see Harvard’s president and one of the University’s top constitutional scholars take a prominent role in speaking out on the Michigan affirmative action case. Since his installation almost two years ago, Summers has not been bashful about using his bully pulpit to have his voice heard. That he is being vocal on such an important issue as the value of diversity is especially welcome...
...land mine. All four passengers in the vehicle--a father with his two young sons and another youth--were killed. Chief among the dead that Friday was Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray, but the bomb did not explode. Azzam, a Palestinian, was the most prominent advocate of a jihad to save the Muslim lands from infidel encroachment. Thanks in part to his writings and diatribes, Islamic fighters from around the world traveled...
...POPE JOHN PAUL II John Paul, wrote TIME, has "the world's bully-est pulpit," and few of his predecessors over the past 2,000 years had spoken from it as often and forcefully as he. In the punishing travels he undertook despite deteriorating health, he cast his message wide. His flock and the world listened, not always liking what they heard. The Pope strictly applied church doctrine, noted TIME, "to trouble the living stream of modernity," to excoriate self-indulgent and often tawdry secularism. He took unpopular stands on such issues as abortion and the ordination of women. Nonetheless...
...might be a liability in some parts of the world, but not in Serbia, where the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, 48, is expected to get 30% of the vote in presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 8. He won't win, but the result could provide an unexpected pulpit for his hardline views. "He's my heart and soul," explains Ilinka Tasic, 50, kissing Seselj's silver-haired likeness at a vegetable market overlooking the Danube. "He is a true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration...