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Harvard President Derek C. Bok responded to Bennett's absurd accusations with some polemical remarks of his own. On the level of soapbox debate, Bok floored the Secretary with an even more formidable display of histrionics. While it is heartening that the President of Harvard can defend himself and his institution from peevish and petty assaults with great skill, Bok failed deal with the important issues that Bennett did raise despite himself. On these more substantive issues--teaching, advising and, to a lesser extent, the Core Curriculum--Bok issued the sort of conditioned, knee-jerk defense of Harvard that Bennett...
...Cuomo ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor. The decorum of the courtroom had not prepared him for the hurly-burly of the soapbox. "I was too professorial," Cuomo recalls. Hugh Carey, whom Cuomo knew from St. John's, was elected Governor and persuaded Cuomo to take on the largely ceremonial job of secretary of state. In 1977 Carey pushed Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City. Cuomo, overcompensating for his preceptorial manner, turned almost surly. In the campaign debates, he made Congressman Ed Koch appear to be the victim, not an easy thing to accomplish...
...disagree with this editorial, let me know. Stand up on a soapbox and denounce my logic. If you really can't control yourself, come and discuss it with me. But please, please don't build towers in protest of this editorial in my common room. Don't get mad; get active...
...usurping freedom of expression, the hecklers damaged their own interests as well as the community's. They ought to have protested, and protested loudly, and when the Contra began to speak, they ought to have passed the soapbox to him. For in this way they would have allowed the audience to see for themselves how contemptible a Contra really...
After the decision, Goetz seemed slightly intoxicated by his notoriety. He recommended that more civilians be trained to carry guns. He showed up at the funeral of a slain cabby. Every other day he seemed to give another "exclusive" interview. His soapbox preaching rebounded against him, redoubling the calls for a new investigation. Says his lawyer Barry Slotnick: "It took him out of the light of the humble, decent Bernie Goetz and made him a public figure who was pontificating on things." Information from his videotaped confession began to leak out. The man the public had proclaimed a hero...