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...avuncular Army commander who conducted daily Pentagon briefings during the war. Kelly, who has signed for 60 more speeches, stands to earn some $3 million this year, far more than he made during his 34-year military career and millions of dollars more than Schwarzkopf has made on the podium. Marvin Josephson, Schwarzkopf's agent, says the former Desert Storm commander is too busy writing his book to hit the circuit...
...then, it was Neil Rudenstine's turn. With a big smile on his face, he strode confidently to the podium, took a big gulp (of water, I assume) from a Harvard University cup, and took out his speech. I was at the edge of my seat, brimming with expectations...
...June, the soft-spoken 19-year- old, who grew up in the public-housing projects in Bridgeport, Conn., proudly marched into the local civic auditorium with 128 other green-and- white-robed members of the Bassick High School graduating class of 1991. He didn't sit on the podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that he got a diploma was something to be proud...
Paul Tsongas has a sad, hurt look. On the podium he is a limp performer who often slurs and swallows his words. Afterward he has to brace himself for insinuating questions about another Greek politician from Massachusetts, the tattered Michael Dukakis. On top of all that, Tsongas must assure voters he has really licked the cancer that led him to retire from the U.S. Senate seven years ago. Why on earth is this man running for President...
Tsongas, a former Massachusetts senator, shared the June Fourth Memorial podium with an exiled Tiananmen Square participant and a Harvard post-doctorate fellow to decry the Chinese government's lack of respect for human rights--and the United States' weak stand against such injustice...