Word: speaker
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Kerry went to great lengths to associate Weld with the extreme conservatism of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), while Weld tried to paint Kerry as part of a stagnant Washington regime...
...time, many conference attendees were listening to a speech that keynote speaker Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, was delivering in Memorial Hall...
...thing, and Dr. Death walked once again. As Fieger put it two weekends ago in the court of Andy Rooney (where maybe all future trials should be held), "Government has no business telling you when you have to"--and here the transcript indicates a slight pause, as if the speaker were choosing among possibilities. Has the government the right to tell anyone anything these days?--"telling you how much you have to suffer before...
...most disheartening part of Franklin Graham's rise to power was the brief mention of his sister Anne Graham Lotz, one of Billy Graham's three daughters, "an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful...
Subject: the assassination of President Kennedy. Speaker: William Colby. Just days before his fatal canoe accident, the former CIA director gave one of his last interviews to the CD-ROM magazine Blender. The June/July issue offers a grainy video, recorded at a sidewalk cafe in Washington, in which Colby ruminates on Oswald-as-commie-spy stories, bullet trajectories and JFK director Oliver Stone. Colby's conclusion: "You have to look at [the assassination] suspiciously," but there's no definitive proof anyone but Oswald was involved. Afterward, Blender reporter James Gordon Meek thanks Colby for his candor: "You talk about...