Word: speech
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...George W. Bush, the bucks start here. On March 17, before about 1,500 Calgary business leaders, Bush will give his first post--White House address and set the going rate for an audience with a former leader of the free world: a reported $150,000 per speech. That may seem like a lot for a man who left Washington with a record-low 22% approval rating. But it's far from exorbitant on the world's most lucrative lecture circuit--one of the perks that prompted John Updike to dismiss the presidency as "a way station en route...
...their own countries, Asian policymakers and business people latched on to that formula. The economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore did so with such success that they became known as the Asian tigers. Their growth model produced miracles--and, as Park said in a 1965 speech, exports were "the economic lifeline...
...other than a marginal group with no real agenda or goal besides the spread of hate, it is dismaying that their spiteful rhetoric will be present at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. The upside to their ignorance and spite is the validation that it lends to the principles of free speech. The vocal and offensive rhetoric of this small group is so clearly preposterous, absurd, and uninformed that they act as the very best argument against themselves. Though they may have little societal value, they affirm the necessity of an open marketplace of ideas and show that the self-regulation...
...Arkin, who plays Rose and Norah's father Joe. Take away Little Miss's grandpa's deep interest in pornography, and they are essentially the same characters. Arkin's needling charms are intact, but it's a poor casting choice. When you hear him giving the same self-esteem speech to Oscar that he gave to Abigail Breslin's Olive, it's hard not to feel you've been sold secondhand merchandise. That's a pity, because Sunshine Cleaning deserves to stand on its own two feet...
...like this to hit so close to home,” said Felix M. Zhang ’11, CSA co-vice president. “Its kind of disconcerting and a little disappointing.” “In the spirit of President Obama’s speech about a post-racial society, it may be interesting for us to reflect on our own colleges like Harvard and Dartmouth,” he added...