Word: speech
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...work,” Applbaum, the acting Director of the Kennedy School’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, said when asked why he had invited McCall-Smith to deliver the Safra Center’s last public lecture of the year. During the speech, he touched on the complex theoretical issues raised by readers’ investment in fictional works, especially when the line between fictional characters and reality becomes blurry. He said that this was especially pertinent to serial fiction and book series. He added that both non-fiction and fiction writers have a moral...
Edward Sebelius said he hopes his peers will find his mother’s speech worthwhile...
...really proud,” he said. “And I’ll be totally nervous until her speech is done...
Rahul Gandhi, heir to modern India's most storied family, touched down by helicopter and spoke for only seven minutes, but in that short stump speech to a friendly crowd in northern India's farm belt, he set out what he hopes will be a road map for a Congress Party victory in the general election that begins on April...
...Janata Party (BJP), the biggest opposition party, has been relentlessly criticizing the Congress Party for being "soft on terror" - India has suffered through a dozen serial blasts over the past two years. The BJP stepped up its rhetoric after the three-day terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but in this speech Gandhi struck back sharply. He reminded the crowd that it was a BJP government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous - one of the jihadis who was released was later sentenced...