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Kim has spent his extraordinary career battling for greater individual freedoms even as an entrenched conservatocracy was willing to use any means to stop him. A gifted orator, he roused passionate, even violent, crowds at his pro-democracy protests. After mounting an unexpectedly strong challenge in his first presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: A DISSIDENT HAS HIS DAY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

The well-developed dialogue between so many strong and flashy sculptures often makes it difficult for drawings to get a word in edgewise. Yet despite tough odds, several works manage to distinguish themselves from the more academic studies in the show. Dave Steiner's two hilariously captivating oil drawings explore...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking the Mold | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

For once, Ashong is completely serious. It's eerie to see him step out of his role as the comedian into that of the orator.

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

As an award-winning orator, the young Keyes was confident of his ability to capture audiences, but wasn't sure his speeches contained the right message. The youngest and the first black to win the American Legion's national public speaking championship, Keyes was only 16 when a synagogue asked...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: A Voice for Values | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Another politician off the Plains, William Jennings Bryan, a man who could make Bill Clinton come off as laconic, remained so closely associated with Nebraska that he was sometimes known as "the boy orator of the Platte." (The Smoky Hill River does run through Russell County, Kansas, but Dole has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOU CAN'T BLAME KANSAS | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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