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Former U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm will address graduating students at MIT's commencement this June, marking only the third time an outside speaker has given the ceremony's Leynote speech...
...minute address, interrupted some three dozen times by applause, was upbeat, inspirational and politically calculating. While emphasizing the need for bipartisanship, it was carefully worded to shore up Reagan's points of vulnerability and pre-empt Democratic issues. In classic campaign style, the speech contained something for everyone: for conservatives, a pitch for school prayer; for liberals, a pledge of stepped-up attempts to fight environmental pollution; for hawks, expressions of pride in strengthened military forces; for doves, a repetition of a standard line, this time ostensibly addressed to the people of the Soviet Union, that "a nuclear war cannot...
...word bipartisan appeared seven times in the President's State of the Union address last week, but the decision to stress a new spirit of cooperation apparently did not reach the White House guards. When Tip O'Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely...
...making progress in Lebanon," President Reagan insisted in his State of the Union address. Maybe so, but in that embattled country, a political crisis appeared to be looming as surely as the whiter storm that whipped across the country last week...
...month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home for a jazz musician, it is worth remembering, is the place where music flourishes, which is not always the same location as one's birthplace or current address...