Word: speech
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...This is not to say there weren’t grounds for parents’ concerns—the language used by the Department of Education in the preparatory materials was not the wisest selection—but the speech wasn’t the grand oratory of progressive principles many conservatives feared. And it certainly wasn’t the Democratic equivalent of President Reagan’s 1988 back-to-school speech, which unabashedly preached the virtues of free enterprise, low taxes, and free trade...
...Obama’s back-to-school speech was given to a future, healthy America from a hale part of the past. The current backlash only shows that the theme of simple responsibility must be emphasized even more...
...President Obama’s speech was roughly equivalent to that of former President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Both speeches focused on themes of personal responsibility and controlling one’s own destiny. Few people seem to remember, however, that immediately after President Bush’s speech was given, a Democrat-controlled Congress ordered a General Accounting Office investigation, convened hearings, and summoned senior Bush officials to Capitol Hill to testify...
...wouldn’t have known it at the debate the Harvard College Vegetarian Society organized this afternoon between Wesley N. Hopkin ’11, a social studies concentrator and member of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society, and Bruce G. Friedrich, vice president of policy and government affairs for PETA...
...arguments against eating meat. A heated exchange about the ethics of the food served by Harvard University Dining Services occurred between Bruce G. Friedrich, vice president of policy and government affairs for PETA, and Wesley N. Hopkin ’11, a member of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society. Hopkin praised HUDS, saying that it is “moving in the right direction.” “We can, generally speaking, eat meat or eat meat products with a relatively clear conscience even now,” he said. Friedrich disagreed, noting that although HUDS...