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...Unlike famed evangelist Billy Graham, who was far more careful about ever tipping his hand in public, Falwell showed no hesitation to shout his politics from the pulpit - and then shout them again on radio and television...
...presidency of Harvard is the perfect pulpit from which to tackle these issues. With our influential community of scholars, we have the world’s premier forum to face the most interdisciplinary of all problems. Addressing global questions of sustainability demands the attention of all our faculties, both as academics and as human beings. Our most basic ways of life demand that we provide real answers about how we will produce energy, build homes, and grow food in an increasingly strained world, answers that require political finesse, scientific rigor, innovative design, and legal savvy...
...ideal: not for the sake of the animals or my health, but for the environment. Meat, I would’ve been quick to tell you, is a bigoted inefficiency to which only those of us in flabby America are privy; Annenberg was my church and fake meat my pulpit. (After reading Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and super-saturating myself with soy, I’ve changed my tune. As with many things, I’ve found that what is “sustainable?...
...contrast to the leadership style of Summers, who often spoke freely on political topics of the day, Faust said that she would use the presidency as a pulpit to influence higher education. The path Harvard sets “helps to define the character and meaning of the universities of the 21st century,” she said...
...reporter asks how she will use the pulpit of the presidency and she answers that she will try to talk about and propose solutions to improve the problems of higher education...