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...larger red Radcliffe banner hung above the speaking podium at yesterday's event, and the Agassiz stage was flanked with urns of flowers--pink hydrangeas, fuchsia azaleas and branches of pussy willow...
That authority is spreading. When Indonesia's new reformist President, Abdurrahman Wahid, visited last month, an angry crowd gathered to protest the disappearance of their relatives during the occupation. Gusmao immediately jumped off the podium and plunged into the crowd, arguing, calming and pleading until, single-handedly, he had pacified several hundred people. Then he led three of the protesters through the throng to meet Wahid. "It was amazing," says Peter Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, now working for the U.N. in East Timor. "There was this woman politely asking Wahid to know where her husband was buried...
...atmosphere in the Forum degenerated to such an extent that IOP Director Alan K. Simpson was forced to take the podium and implore the audience to present substantive questions and not personal attacks. The audience toned down their antics from that moment on, but by then there was little time left in Buchanan's appearance. When the event finally came to a close, those valiant soldiers of the Left who had unleashed their vitriol undoubtedly felt a deep sense of satisfaction. Not every day does a paladin have the opportunity to confront the Devil himself, and besides, it's always...
After 15 minutes, Viscusi stepped up to the podium and presented the audience with a number of statistics on different social costs "per pack." Viscusi is one of only three professors at Harvard Law School without a J.D., having received both his A.B. and Ph.D in economics...
...eyebrows perpetually raised. It was hard not to get Bradley fatigue in the middle of an event. Senator Paul Wellstone, the feisty Minnesota liberal so bouncy he seemed about to leap into Bradley's arms, would work the crowd into a lather only to have Bradley take the podium and douse the room with ice water. Occasionally he was the Pied Piper in a room full of children, but on a visit to a school gym last month, even that gift failed him: he went 2 for 9 shooting baskets. His side lost...