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...School.What it was not, of course, was a sign of the vitality of Pakistan’s democracy, for there was none. President Musharraf was, and still is, a military dictator. “Our dictator,” to be sure, but a dictator nonetheless.When Musharraf took the podium, it was to deliver a relatively uncontroversial speech supporting President Bush’s “war on terror,” while lamenting the diplomatic difficulties of Pakistan’s border disputes with India. Somehow the good general forgot to talk about honor killings, Pakistan?...
...Five years ago, I stood at this podium and called on the community of nations to defend civilization and build a more hopeful future. This is still the great challenge of our time; it is the calling of our generation. This morning, I want to speak about the more hopeful world that is within our reach, a world beyond terror, where ordinary men and women are free to determine their own destiny, where the voices of moderation are empowered, and where the extremists are marginalized by the peaceful majority. This world can be ours if we seek...
...moving experience for me to be back again in the university and to be able once again to give a lecture at this podium. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn. That was in 1959, in the days of the old university made up of ordinary professors. The various chairs had neither assistants nor secretaries, but in recompense there was much direct contact with students and in particular among the professors themselves. We would meet before and after lessons in the rooms...
About six weeks into Ec1010b, “Macroeconomic Theory,” Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln left the podium to write some unintelligible equation on the board...
...there were an international prize for mean-spiritedness, Germaine Greer would be on the podium this week delivering her acceptance speech. Steve Irwin's body was barely out of the water before the UK's Guardian newspaper published the expatriate Australian's opinion that the animal world "has finally taken its revenge" on the Crocodile Hunter...