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...year after winning the Nobel Prize is a nightmare for anyone and he is no doubt somewhat overwhelmed and decided to reschedule at a better time,” said Graham, who was a member of the seven-person committee that selected Coetzee as this spring’s speaker...
...baccalaureat is but a tradition, a form in like measure uninspiring to speaker and listener. It is without doubt more difficult of performance than an after-dinner speech. The speaker cannot crack jokes with the same freedom: while the audience cannot endure the boredom with the same keen delight as when resting upon a full meal. Moreover the sermon is never so sorry that one willing to, can not individualize it profitably. And what other earthly use is there for the Sunday preceding commencement...
...those who reject reconciliation and want war, we are ready. For those who want reconciliation, we have given them a chance. Stop shedding our blood so as to preserve your blood." Anonymous speaker said to be OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an audiotape aired by the Arabic TV stations al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, offering European countries, but not the U.S., a truce...
...discredit, it used a cast almost entirely of white-bread heteros to guide us through all that otherness.) In January 1996, when Ross's ex-wife married her lesbian lover, the episode raised scant controversy, and most of that because Candace Gingrich--the lesbian sister of Newt, then Speaker of the House--presided over the ceremony. "This is just another zooey episode of the justifiably popular Friends," yawned USA Today. Sure, sitcoms like Roseanne had introduced gays earlier--but it's not as though that had rendered gay marriage uncontroversial, then or now. The bigger difference was in attitude, both...
...Wolf] is one of the most liberal members in the House. She can be trusted to vote well on issues. But she’s not perfect,” said Johnson. “Anyone who supports Speaker Finneran doesn’t understand how democracy works and she supports him. She’s part of a Democratic structure that is not working...