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...very dynamic speaker," said Devarati Ghosh '99. "I liked the way he worked the crowd rather than staying behind the podium. He was not afraid to make firm statements or cater to public opinion. That's why it's a disappointment that he's not running [for president] this year...
...endeavor. However, Arafat needs Western money and political support in order to create a viable democracy for the Palestinians. If the duly elected government of Israel can allocate millions of dollars to Arafat for this purpose, then the least we can do at Harvard is grant him a podium from which to make his plea for help and ignore the ravings of obstructionists such as Danilewitz and Nelson. --Martin Lebwohl '96 Matthew Mayers...
...refuse to read what they have prepared for me," Arafat said, as he stood at the podium and set aside the 10-page speech prepared for him. "I want to speak from my heart to your heart...
Carver's time on the podium was bracketed by apostles of the extreme. The speaker who preceded him announced that federal environmental laws and the international biodiversity treaty would force mass relocations in the Midwest--80% of Wisconsin's population would have to move. The speaker after Carver proudly disclosed that he was the cartoonist whose leaflet, stacked at the auditorium entrance, reprised a conspiracy theory about the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' controlling the world. Carver left the room to avoid hearing his remarks...
...chose to make this journey," Chicago told an audience at Brandeis on October 15 (she also spoke at Harvard on October 18), "and that's what's going to have to happen when the survivor generation dies off." Leaning on the podium, she stares thoughtfully through her purple-tinted glasses and recollects a conversation with her publisher. "I asked her if she'd seen 'The Holocaust Project' and she said 'No... "The Dinner Party" [an earlier work of Chicago's] was an event you couldn't miss. "The Holocaust Project" is something that I'd rather not have to choose...