Word: speech
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...noon in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, President Obama addressed the nation’s need for clean energy. In addition to the packed auditorium, MIT had seven viewing rooms, where hundreds watched the speech via real time projection. Though watching Obama on a simulcast screen, cramped spectators stood patriotically during the opening National Anthem and clapped enthusiastically at his closing words, although some students were spotted cramming for midterms throughout...
Despite the apparent Obamamania, however, some remained skeptical. James S. DeLuca, a volunteer for Green Peace was one of a crowd of environmentalists protesting outside the speech. He said before the speech that Obama had not come out to say exactly what course of action the U.S. needs to take. “You can’t just put a piece of electrical tape over the check engine light,” DeLuca said...
...Rather than restore Palestinian faith in the peace process, the Obama Administration's efforts may have only fueled the backlash. Any optimism over renewed peace efforts that had been generated by President Obama's Cairo speech quickly dissipated as Washington failed to win Israeli compliance with its demand for a settlement freeze. And the Administration put Abbas in an untenable position earlier this month by leaning on him to revoke Palestinian support for the U.N. discussing the Goldstone Report, which accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during last winter's fighting in Gaza. So intense was the outcry...
Audience members expressed support for Donovan’s approach to housing policy in a question-and-answer session following the speech. The audience also gave Donovan standing ovations both before and after his lecture...
Initially, the public option was a relatively small feature of the health-reform design, meant primarily to assure that there would be some competition for private insurers. As President Obama noted in his September speech before Congress, no more than 5% of Americans - largely those who are now uninsured - are expected to sign up for it. But the public option has assumed an outsized political significance, thanks to the fact that it has become a flash point between the left and the right. That is in part because both see it as a potential precursor to a government-run single...