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Luckily for would-be male cross-dressers everywhere, courageous male authority figures like Rudy Giuliani have condoned transvestitism from the moral pulpit of elected office. Giuliani's appearance last March could be the watershed in the popular acceptance of male cross-dressing. That's not to say I expect to see Marty in a dress for the next Ec10 lecture (though I dare him to); rather, opposition to cross-dressing in schools and elsewhere should, and I think will, dissipate...
...lawyers plan a defense based on the separation of church and state, arguing that if the people of God will not rise against him over church business, why should the government? There are telltale silences, though. The Rev. Alvin Miller, Bethel's associate pastor, refuses to share the Bethel pulpit with Lyons, glowering from the pews. "When you've done wrong, the Lord is going to forgive you," he says, "but if you get caught taking cookies out of the jar, you've still got to suffer the consequences...
...centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience ineradicably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself--in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...President?s not alone on this one; he has the governors of Virginia and California (homes to AOL and Intel), not to mention common sense, in his corner. And as long as most states remain opposed, Clinton gets to do what he relishes most: Crisis management from the bully pulpit...
...life of students from diverse backgrounds, a reinvigorated effort to bring ethnic studies courses to the FAS curriculum, a savvy ability to use the tools of information technology to inform the oblivious, and, yes, a vocal and activist Undergraduate Council willing to use its Harvard moniker as a bully pulpit on which to speak up for progressive causes, whether it be the plight of migrant farm laborers or Harvard's egregious and covert land acquistions in the working-class community of Allston...