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...president declare the American military mission there a success. "We celebrate the restoration of democracy to your country," Clinton told the crowd, whose front ranks consisted of children who giggled at several presidential attempts at Creole. Right on cue, as Clinton spoke, a white dove landed on the podium between him andHaitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (Aristide's staff had released a whole flock of his trademark peace symbols in the yard.) As Clinton declared that the six-month U.S. mission had been accomplished "on schedule and with remarkable success," U.S. and U.N. flags were exchanged to mark the transition...
...scene resembles that in many a law-school classroom: two dozen earnest third-year students in jeans and flannel shirts sit at desks, their notebooks open in front of them. Behind the podium where assistant professor Lynne Marie Kohm stands, a sign on the blackboard advertises a bar-exam cram course. But the discussion of the topic at hand, divorce, is not limited to the standard legalisms of family law-custody, property, visitation. Instead, the students here at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, return, again and again, to the spiritual consequences for parents and children...
...Limbaugh phenomenon was about, and perhaps locating the root causes of the congressional shift to the right. My worst fears were realized as it became obvious that the melange of facts, opinions, exaggerations, and blatant misrepresentation I had seen as a "Republican comedy showcase" saw itself as a credible podium for news. Moreover, it was equally frightening that many Republicans in power accentuated their ties with Limbaugh, crediting his work for their congressional majorities...
Every year a veritable horde of prominent individuals from a wide range of backgrounds are asked to speak at Harvard University. Few have received as much attention as Barbra Streisand did when she took the podium at the Kennedy School of Government on February...
...discount-store dressing room and stopping to take deep breaths and frequent sips of water, she either gave an Oscar-worthy rendition of a person with stage fright or she actually had it. (Who wouldn't? Everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Mario Cuomo has preceded her to the podium of the Institute of Politics.) She delivered a TelePrompTed broadside at her critics, naming names (Rush, Newt, Jesse--Helms, not Jackson--and the editor of the New Republic). She denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers: ``We can attract a crowd and raise astounding amounts...