Word: platforms
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...despite the aesthetic mystery of their pealing, the Lowell House bells embody something visceral and powerful that falls altogether outside the realm of music. Standing high above Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience. The 17 bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside...
Warren Beatty, star of the movies "Dick Tracy" and "Bulworth," took the ARCO Forum platform last night to voice his political views, while dispelling rumors about a run for the presidency in the upcoming election...
Bush's success in the field of education is a challenge to the Democratic candidates. While Gore has made education a center plank in his platform, he does not have the hands-on experience in turning around a failing educational system that Bush can claim. And even though Bush has inherited and adopted traditionally Democratic attitudes towards education, he has been willing to take even more radical steps for improvement. Bush's radical methods have also had detractors; unfortunately, both Democratic candidates have tiptoed around the issue of testing in order to improve performance...
While Professor of Economics David Cutler professes only a minor involvement in former N.J. senator Bill Bradley's presidential campaign, his area of expertise is health care economics--a key element of Bradley's platform...
...chair of the Cambridge Republican City Committee, Trumbull's platform is greater personal freedom and less government interference in people's lives. He is involved in several community organizations...