Word: speech
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...Petrov wear their erudition on their sleeves in “The Golden Calf.” The novel is filled with cues from high and low culture—colorful and referential insults, classical literature, and cosmopolitan knowhow. One pretend madman, exercising freedom of speech as his alter ego declares, “Et tu, Brute, sold out the Bolsheviks!” The novel also takes particular interest in allusions to “The Brothers Karamazov,” and at one point Ostap conflates the story of Jason’s Golden Fleece with the titular...
Undoubtedly, Obama has made efforts toward peace and set a refreshing tone after eight years of the Bush administration’s belligerent foreign policy. His many overtures toward peace with the Middle East such as his momentous speech in Cairo and his vision of a non-nuclear world as expressed in Prague are undeniable evidence that Obama is a president whose desires are certainly in line with those of the Nobel Committee...
Volcker’s speech began somewhat inauspiciously, as the audience initially struggled to hear...
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul A. Volcker harshly criticized financial engineering and emphasized the need to return to a more production-based economy in a speech last night at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics...
...speech, the 1951 graduate of Harvard School of Public Administration (the precursor to the Kennedy School), stressed that many of the causes of the recession have not been fully repaired...