Word: speaker
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...only an honor student and a track and football star, but also a serious churchgoer who taught Sunday school and composed rap songs urging younger children to stay out of trouble. For Martin Luther King Day last year, his classmates and teachers chose him for keynote speaker. "I just talked about accomplishing your goals and not falling prey to society," Jones remembers. "I talked about the importance of having God in your life and the importance of getting your education. I told them to strive 110% for the goals that they want to accomplish, and don't become another victim...
Elizabeth Bishop, one of my favorite poets, wrote a poem which has been my lesson for the summer. It's called, "One Art," and in it the speaker learns to accept the lack of control, the randomness of Fate, the pain, which all accompany loss. It reads...
Democratic congressional leaders announced publicly what's been known by Washington insiders for months: that President Clinton's health-care proposal is dead. Senate majority leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Tom Foley stated that they were working on their own health-care proposal. Clinton said that's fine by him. But the new bill might be quite different from anything the Prez has in mind: Mitchell said today that his plan would be "less bureaucratic, more voluntary and will be phased in over a longer period of time." The Senator also hinted that the plan would require employers...
Jerry Garcia was the keynote speaker, or vocalist, as the case...
According to Weld spokesperson Pamela A. Jonah, the governor met with Bhatti, Stop and Shop executives and State Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty about the matter over the past two months before making his decision...