Word: addresses
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February is a month for honoring great lecturers. Earlier this week we celebrated the birthday of Abe Lincoln, a great hit on the lecture circuit in his heyday. No one who heard it ever forgot his Gettysburg Address. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he said. Well, the thought was a good one, though somewhat optimistic...
...JOHN F. KENNEDY School of Government's selection of former Texas Gov. John B. Connally as this year's Gustav Pollak lecturer is deplorable. In inviting Connally to deliver this prestigious address, the Kennedy School conferred an honor on a man who in his political career has been distinguished primarily for his reactionary political ideology, his shady campaign practices and his opportunism...
Another argument is that "the status quo is adequate." If it were, how could I cite so many obvious problems that students are powerless to address without a central voice? Why, even at schools with decision-making based on a student-faculty committee system, would there still exist an umbrella organization to maintain student unity and provide student services? One thing is certain: a student association will not make things any worse...
...conservatism. The Washington Post columnist Clayton Fritchey recently wrote that Carter is the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland, who was first elected in 1884. That this is apparently so is illustrated in Fritchey's article, quoting Carter's summation of his January 19 State of the Union address: "Government cannot solve our problems. It cannot set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy, or reduce inflation, or save our cities, or cure illiteracy, or provide energy...
With Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's encouragement, Sadat delivered a fairly moderate address to his parliament explaining why he had called Kamel back from Jerusalem; two days later, Begin accordingly made a reasoned speech before the Knesset in which he insisted that Israel was seeking "an atmosphere in which calm negotiations can be pursued...