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...everyone equated the financial downturn with a need for pecuniary curtailment. In a speech that received rousing applause from his colleagues, statistics professor Xiao-Li Meng said that the tough times gave Harvard a chance to snare top professors from less financially secure institutions...
...lighter moment, Achebe drew laughs when he told the crowd how Queen Elizabeth II contacted him to see if she could recite his poem “Beware Soul Brother” in a speech...
...reasoning behind Obama’s choice to personally send him to the G-20, he was “exceptionally impressed with the economic team that Sen. Obama has put together which includes Larry Summers.” Reflecting an opinion that President Bush also expressed in a speech last Thursday, economics professor Kenneth S. Rogoff said in an interview, “Anyone looking to the G-20 this weekend for salvation wasn’t going to find anything in the way of immediate change.” Though the leaders did not develop a concrete plan...
...even as a foreigner, I could not help but get caught up in the excitement surrounding this election cycle. I have spent the past year and a half looking at results from the primaries, gazing at red and blue maps, sitting through every debate and convention speech, and worshipping Nate Silver. Since freshman fall I have been engaging in dinner table discussions with all my American friends, talking about the working-class white vote in Pennsylvania as though I grew up in Scranton...
...Question #12. Please identify all speeches you have given. If available, please provide the text or recordings of each such speech or identify any recordings of speeches of which you are aware. While this might immediately eliminate a few notorious public figures - like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, say, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - it's harder to tell whether there might be any hidden evils lurking in the dusty VHS recording of your high school graduation speech, other than the bad haircut...