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...event in Chicago for Democratic governors on June 20, the Obama campaign placed an official-looking seal on the candidate's lectern, clearly intended to resemble the Seal of the President of the U.S. In place of E PLURIBUS UNUM, it read VERO POSSUMUS, a rough Latin translation of Obama's slogan "Yes we can." Republicans, the media and even some Democrats slammed the move as uncomfortably presumptuous; a McCain spokesman called the gesture "laughable, ridiculous [and] preposterous...
...Rowling follows in a disturbing trend in recent commencement picks. It’s universally recognized that only a world figure—political or diplomatic, that is—could possibly be worthy of the lectern in Tercentenary Theatre and the Harvard doctorate that goes with it. However, not since U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed the plenum in 2004 has a man of suitable credentials been chosen. Each of us has sacrificed time and treasure to make it to the end of our Harvard careers, and so the choice of an overpaid peddler of the prepubescent equivalent...
...students file in, taking their seats in the pews usually reserved for the church’s choir. The 9 p.m. service starts, and hymns fill the church. With a few chords hanging in the air, Rev. Jonathan C. Page ’02 takes his place at the lectern to deliver his homily...
...Page has eschewed traditional chaplain’s raiments, preferring an Oxford shirt and jeans. And as he begins to describe his personal experience with Lent as a teenager, Page moves from behind the lectern and paces Oprah-style before the semi-circle, exhorting the students to translate the liturgical season of fasting and prayer to their daily lives...
...speech got little attention when Edwards first tried it out in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 29. Delivered from behind a lectern, the "two Americas" refrain sounded like the familiar trope of class warfare. "One America does the work while another America reaps the reward," Edwards intoned. "One America pays the taxes while another America gets the tax breaks." But as Edwards took it on the road-into living rooms and union halls and diners and high school gyms-it grew and evolved into something much, much bigger, into a cause. "The more I talked about it, the more...