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Amanpour is the first female Class Day speaker since Lani C. Guinier ’71, a Clinton nominee for assistant attorney general who delivered the Class Day speech in 1994 and is now a professor at Harvard Law School...
Amanpour joins the ranks of previous Class Day speakers who came from various walks of life. Many past speakers—such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, and Conan O’Brien ’85—were comedians, while others, like Tim Russert and former President Bill Clinton, came from careers in media or public service...
Detractors, he said, have voiced their preference for President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey as the Class Day speaker...
...thought they would have a different mix of people this year,” said Wenna Jia ’10, an inactive Crimson business editor, in reference to Matt Lauer, another television anchor who delivered last year’s Class Day speech...
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...