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...Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is the Commencement speaker. Administration officials assured students that once Zedillo begins speaking, it will only seem as though he was at the podium for 71 years?...
...American soldier. I got to thinking about his remarks this past Saturday while attending a “Support Our Troops” rally at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Standing beside me waving flags, and speaking at the podium, were veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. There may be no more humbling experience for a college student than to be in the company of such remarkable people. Needless to say, I think that Brit Hume was absolutely right...
Assistant press secretary Malcolm Kilduff took the podium in a stark hospital classroom and, reading off a scrap of paper that fluttered with his hand, announced, "President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 o'clock Central Standard Time today, here in Dallas." I remember wondering how anything as exuberant as the Kennedy Administration could end in such a simple sentence. Around the corner in his makeshift office, Kilduff sat mute, weeping. "Can you tell me anything more?" I asked as gently as I knew how. He tossed the announcement paper at me, then he whispered, "Oh, that...
...learned that we weren't allowed to pass resolutions at the conference. So on its final day, June 30, as dignitaries yammered at the podium, I joined other furious women at the two front lunch tables, passing along notes written on napkins. We were putting together the National Organization for Women under the noses of the people who wanted to put us off. I wrote on one napkin that NOW had "to take the actions needed to bring women into the mainstream of American society, now ... in fully equal partnership with men." As people rushed to catch planes, the founding...
...shuffles through her coveted stack of photographs, suddenly the home photographs end and instead there are pictures of a man—the same father and husband—standing still in the midst of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, speaking to a crowd from a podium. Then there is a picture of Yang standing still in the midst of a crowd hoisting posters. Then a blurry one of bloody bodies lying in the street...