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Trying to reverse this trend, Clinton struck notes ranging from passionate to pleading. Presenting the bill at a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Clinton began waving his arms and banging the lectern, first with a forefinger and then with a fist, as he slid into an ad-lib riff on the necessity for reform: the U.S., he cried, is "choking on a health-care system that -- is -- not -- working." The day after, in a speech to medical students and professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clinton sounded oddly supplicating: "Please help us," he implored...
...arrived in the lecture hall at 8:30 a.m. and it was already about one-fourth full. By the time Mallinkrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 arrived a half-hour later, the aisles were packed and he had to step over students to make it to the lectern...
Just when it appeared he might permit NAFTA to die rather than risk having it dilute support for his health-care plan, Bill Clinton gathered three former Presidents to the White House last week and delivered a lectern-thumping speech on the job-creating virtues of free trade, the unparalleled productivity of the American worker and the irresistible winds of change in the global economy...
...final moments of the conversation were awkward because it was clearly the end of the issue. The trio at last emerged from the 75-minute session with reddened eyes -- and 45 minutes later, the President mounted the podium in the press room to kill the nomination. Gripping the lectern and raising his fists, showing more emotion than he had expressed at any time since the dog days of New Hampshire, he said, "I cannot fight a battle I know is divisive, that is an uphill battle, that is distracting to the country, if I do not believe in the ground...
Professor of English Marjorie Garber, who teaches the popular Core curriculum introductory Shakespeare class, says students and graduates seem not to expect a woman standing in front of the Sanders Theatre lectern...