Word: speaker
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North Korea's Kim Jong Il, 51, wears high-heeled shoes and a bouffant hairdo in an attempt to look taller. He is a poor speaker and worries whether he can match his father's commanding power. But even those who laugh loudest at his vanities take one of his indulgences quite seriously: Kim, who has taken over day-to-day dictatorial duties from his 81-year-old father, "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung, appears determined to build a secret arsenal of nuclear weapons. His government had threatened to quit the 150-nation Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons...
...been a while since Harvard's Commencement has been blessed with a protest other than Law School graduates' annual melee with their dean. Today's demonstrations, however, are welcome and justified--because our speaker, General Colin L. Powell, subscribes to government-sanctioned discrimination in the form of the military's ban on gays and lesbians...
...Harvard announces that Ben. Colin L. Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the primary speaker at Commencement. The decision sparks protests--including a Harvard Yard rally that drawn more than about 300 students--because Powell supports the ben on gays in the military...
Since the announcement of Powell as Commencement speaker, it sometimes has seemed on campus as though Powell's entire person and career can be summed up by one statement: He does not believe that gays and lesbians should be in the military...
...played a crucial role in helping to shape global policies concerning the use of armed forces in the complex environment of the post-Cold War era," said Rudenstine in a statement issued on the same day as the announcement of the speaker choice. "General Powell has had an outstanding record of distinguished service to the nation...