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...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
Westhagen studied Scandinavian dance as a child and says her father watches Norwegian television on an international channel at home...
...ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientist, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton proposed to force a passage by dogsled across the continent. The trek was intended to surpass the achievement of Shackleton's great rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who had reached the South Pole early in 1912 (narrowly preceded by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen) but had died with his four companions on the march back...
...They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," Mansfield said. Three recent Commencement speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philipine President Corazon Aquino and former Irish President Mary R. Robinson--were thus summed up in a single, beautiful sentence. One can hardly argue with the fact that they are all liberal women, and a strong case can made for the charge of mediocrity. All are deserving of our admiration and respect, but it would be difficult to argue that Brundtland has made an indelible mark on the world...