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...Well, I think we’ve all learned enough here today. Consider this your graduation ceremony,” he said, raising his arms. “Students of the Kennedy School of Government, you are free to go!” At the time, Colbert was not speaking as himself, but as “Stephen Colbert,” the brash, right-wing pundit he portrays on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” However, despite a few moments which blurred fact and fiction, Colbert spent most of the evening...
...humor of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the royal satire of the new film The Queen. I also participated in a South Bank Show about Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit who, although they are made of plasticine (and one, a dog, says nary a word), speak eloquently to the English traits of gamely soldiering on through life's trials, many of them self-inflicted...
Shouvik Banerjee, a student at the Kennedy School, called the event “incredible” and said he was “surprised and glad” that Colbert chose to speak mostly out of character...
When Harvard scientists said they would create human embryos for use in stem-cell studies, Romney blasted the plan as “Orwellian in scope.” And when Harvard’s Kennedy School invited former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to speak there Sept. 10, Romney called that move “a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of extremists...
...Some time ago, Rick Warren, megapastor of the Saddleback Church in Orange County and author of the mega-seller The Purpose-Driven Life, along with his wife Kay, invited Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to speak today at the second annual AIDS conference at Warren's church. Other politicians were to participate, notably Sen. Sam Brownback, a born-again Christian turned conservative Catholic who, like Obama, may have presidential ambitions. But while Brownback was to speak to his natural constituency, Obama's participation is a divisive issue for one overriding reason: he is pro-choice...