Word: speakes
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Nearly 80 years later, Fitzgerald's words speak even more truly to my generation than they did to his: We are children cradled to the sound of a crooning Bob Dylan and formed in the materialistic '80s and sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student activism and have had austere lessons in the failure of pithy aphorisms and the inevitability of complexity and, often, inaction. We are a generation burdened with the memory of attempted change and of subsequent half-success or failure...
Antagonism increased as the negotiationsdragged on more than 60 months past the expirationdate of the old contract and reached a peak inDecember when thousands turned out to hear theReverend Jesse L. Jackson speak at a union rally...
According to John E. "Bo" Kemp, a second-year student at HBS and the head of the 10-member Class Day committee charged with selecting this year's speaker, "The relevance of somebody like Secretary Rubin coming to speak here is that he is someone who worked his way up to become co-chair of Goldman, Sachs and then he broke away to do something completely different...
...convention is not the right forum forThomas to speak," he said. "Let him go elsewhere...
Thomas is scheduled to speak at the judicial council's luncheon, according to Randy K. Jones, president of the NBA and a federal prosecutor in San Diego...