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Ayogu cautioned against judging the quality of a speech by the recognizability of the speaker’s name, recalling the 2008 Class Day speech of Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben S. Bernanke ’75, who focused on energy and labor productivity in a speech accompanied by 12 footnotes and 12 references...
Amanpour will join a list of Class Day speakers hailing from a wide spectrum of careers, from government officials like Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben S. Bernanke '75 and Bill Clinton to comedians like Al Franken '73 and Conan O'Brien '85. Today Show co-anchor Matt Lauer spoke at last year's Class...
...TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...funds toward a technology that still has unresolved environmental risks and that has struggled for years to attract private capital. "The Department of Energy is putting taxpayers on the hook for bailing out costly and dangerous nuclear-reactor projects when the loans used to finance those projects default," said Ben Schreiber, the climate- and energy-tax analyst for the Friends of the Earth, in a statement. "This is great news for Wall Street but a bad deal for Main Street...
...that has characterized students’ past reactions to the announcements of commencement and Class Day speakers—after all, there is no way to preemptively know the quality of the speech before the day of Commencement. The hype that preceded 2008 Class Day speaker Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 starkly contrasted with students’ negative attitudes after his notorious ten-citation speech, during which many attendees left. On the other hand, last year’s Class Day speaker, Matt Lauer of The Today Show, was surprisingly enjoyable and enlightening. As such...