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Hardly what one would expect from an unassuming man from Brookline who, after more than a year in the spotlight, still seemed slightly surprised to find himself behind a podium in front of a packed audience at the Boston...
Saundra Graham, a local activist, stormed the podium, disrupting a speech, and spoke for two hours. She led a group of students, neighbors and anti-war activists, demanding that Harvard stop buying and developing land along the Charles River...
...ominous pressure that had been maliciously swimming at the bottom of the music suddenly leaps forth in an explosion of sound. Abbado led the orchestra to the symphony's profound and dramatic conclusion with a zeal that matched the intensity (and volume) of the piece itself. On his podium, Abbado demonstrated what all great conductors should strive to do--he nearly became the music, in all of its near-violent splendor. By the time he finally put his baton down and turned to bow to the audience, his visible fluster and enormous smile, as well as the standing ovation...
...cartoon depicts a white professor standing at a podium labeled "U.T. Law School." A black man, carrying books, enters the classroom, and the professor appears unclear whether the student is a custodian or a student...
...rather than offering an opening statement, Robinson said simply "The Undergraduate Council" and then stood silently at the podium as her minute inched by, ending her speech with "dawn" after time was called...