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...October 31: Chinese President Jiang Zemin addresses Harvard students and the nation from a lectern in Sanders Theatre. Thousands of protesters and Jiang supporters crowd the streets outside the hall...
...Forum event was Alan Simpson's last. Taking the lectern after Starr had finished, Simpson left the audience with a few of his homemade pearls of wisdom. The final one, which he said applied to himself, to Starr and to any politician, was an appeal for moral judgement...
...jokes aside, the dilemma of dozing lecture halls does concern those at the lectern...
...bring out his famous temper. "They tried to get him to explode on the floor," says McCain's ally, Democrat Russ Feingold. "They tried as hard as they could." McCain rocked in his shoes; he folded and then unfolded his arms; he fidgeted with the papers on his lectern. But the man once crowned Senator Hothead did not blow. As he remembers, "I had to say to myself, 'Look, John, you're not going to gain anything by displaying anger here...
Although she was not much taller than the lectern before her, Hauser nonetheless managed to captivate her audience as one of the speakers at yesterday's exclusive event. She offered toasts to all assembled and a saucy description of Harvard's "asking you for a few million...