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Good morning, graduates, and congratulations. It's hard to believe how far you've come since freshman orientation, when you didn't even know the difference between the historical tyranny of patriarchal norms and the tyrannical patriarchy of normative historicity. [Pause for knowing laughter.] We hope these four years have been not just enlightening but also joyful, invigorating, even--dare we say--as lusty as a May meadow. Because, baby, the party's over. [Pause for rueful laughter...
Amid the nervous laughter of his aides and reporters, Berlusconi, a Cheshire-cat grin widening across his face, brought up the question himself about le minorenni following the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers in Rome. No, he insisted, there was nothing piccante (spicy) or "more than piccante" in his encounters with anyone underage, and he'd sworn so on the heads of his own children. Berlusconi insisted that he would have "resigned immediately" if he had been guilty of any of the aforementioned spiciness with someone under the age of consent. That, he said, was all he would...
...approaching my work here. I do the best that I can every day, and be prepared to change ... because change is inevitable, and don't get too wedded to anything, because something else might come up. So I try to apply the same principles, and hope for the best. [Laughter...
Were they different? Oh, yes. [Laughter.] They are. They were very different questions...
None about your shoes. No. [Laughter...