Word: speech
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Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, one of the four, joked about his roommates during a speech at Eliot House to commemorate Harvard's 350th anniversary. All of the roomies except Steiner are professors, two of whom, Professor of English Walter J. Kaiser and Professor East Asian Languages and Civilization Phillip Kuhn, are tenured at Harvard. The other roommate Paul Sheets is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles...
...addition, we have independent evidence that the Syrian ambassador was personally involved, several months before the commission of the offense, in securing for Hindawi the sponsorship of the Syrian intelligence authorities," he said in the speech less than three hours after Hindawi was found guilty...
When the part-speech, part-group therapy session ended, I felt part of something special. Members of the self-selected and the Epps-selected crowd were speechless; they too felt part of something special. The maestro was surrounded by a newly-converted following, some of whom were presumably going to rush home to their own high holiday rituals, telling of their brush with greatness...
...rocks, a tin of imported cigarettes and a ream of papers. Throughout the night each one of those distractions competed for the great maestro's attention. With 70 "student leaders" in attendance, hung over and left over from the Memorial Hall dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just as in our own lives...
Gorbachev said in a televised speech in Moscow that "to get rid of the nuclear threat is a realistic and possible" goal...