Word: pulpits
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...Rudenstine didn’t pull out. And here he is, 10 years later. In his wake he leaves a conflicting record—the potential for a larger campus, a fatter wallet, a more diverse University, but a diminished bully pulpit and a distinct sense of distance between students and University administration...
...speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...
...hindsight, it all makes perfect sense. George W. Bush has a campaign wish list, a solid House majority and a split-down-the-middle Senate. So he uses the bully pulpit and the House's Republican leadership to set the high bid - $1.6 trillion in tax cuts, 4-percent growth in discretionary spending - and in the Senate, let the centrist Democrats make the counteroffer. Bush takes his 55 votes and calls it a compromise...
...past week, Cincinnati has sustained more civil unrest than it has at any time since the rioting prompted by the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. We are saddened by the media’s disinterest, and we urge President George W. Bush to use his bully pulpit and seize this opportunity to bring these riots to national attention. Bush had expressed ardent verbal opposition to racial profiling throughout his campaign and asked the Attorney General for a report on the subject soon after taking office. We encourage Bush to continue with this process. The profound antagonism between...
...College Dublin. By the time she was 46 she had become Ireland's first female president. She is only the second occupant of the high commissioner post, but her tireless campaigning - she has visited more than 60 countries - and unyielding outspokenness have transformed the office into an international bully pulpit. Her willingness to, as she puts it, "criticize those who are your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel, for example, bristled when she said it used excessive force in the Palestinian territories. Russia responded angrily to her criticism of its role in Chechnya...