Word: speech
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...hard to avoid the impression that we simply cherry-picked Obama’s (admittedly phenomenal) 2004 speech. While it was remarkably effective at bringing fame to the Illinois senator, it failed to change us in any meaningful way. Our notions about those who are ideologically distant remain inert, in spite of Obama’s early pleas...
...University just announced that Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be this year's Commencement speaker. Not a huge surprise, considering Harvard's new green initiative and Al Gore's recent speech in Tercentenary Theatre. Green is the new Crimson, baby. But although Harvard is digging that Chu is a passionate advocate for renewable energy, his passion for academics went somewhat...unappreciated by the Ivy Leagues in an earlier go-round. In his autobiography on the Nobel Prize web site, he writes of how he was rejected...
...marriage, but rather that Notre Dame recognizes and appreciates its status as a premier institution that should facilitate intellectual exchange—including debate on this issue itself. Critics of Notre Dame’s choice have chosen to engage the issue intelligently: One image designed to protest the speech depicts a Shepard Fairey-style fetus underlined with the word “HUMAN,” invoking the popular representation of Obama during the election. This deployment of popular liberal imagery against a Democrat suggests that opponents to Obama’s speech are cognizant of the iconographic profile...
...well aware that no nondemocratic state has ever become truly prosperous for one simple reason: freedom is better than nonfreedom." - during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (BBC profile...
...asking anyone to love Russia, but we will not allow anyone to cause harm to Russia and we will get respect - for the citizens of Russia and for our whole country, but not with force but by our own behavior and successes." - a contrasting comment from his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Wall Street Journal...