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...Gore’s clumsy speech notwithstanding—replete as it was with nebulous metaphors comparing climate change to the subprime-mortgage crisis and a bizarre historiography of the Enlightenment—the event coincided with Harvard’s daylong “sustainability celebration...
Paarlberg used his speech to elucidate the stark differences in the two candidates’ approaches to key foreign policy concerns...
...fitting that Barack Obama brought his closing-argument speech to Pittsburgh: this is a city of many lives, one born in a cradle of steel and promise that collapsed and rose again and knows something about reinvention. "The American story has never been about things coming easy," Obama said. "It's about seeing the highest mountaintop from the deepest of valleys." This hilly city is as good a place as any to come for that kind of view. It is, according to the August census report, the fifth-poorest city in the country, and yet it ranks as among...
...campaign is in its final week, and it's been an extraordinary ride - so extraordinary that it's easy to forget that it began with a skinny state senator with a funny name and a lot of teeth giving an unforgettable speech at the Democratic convention in Boston four years ago. When Obama stood before his party elders and declared that "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America," he was talking to a crowd of party faithful inflamed with hatred for George W. Bush and eager to fight every campaign...
...Dalai Lama really given up on hope that China might some day come around and agree to his proposal for some sort of (very) limited autonomy for his homeland, Tibet? That's what the 73-year-old exiled Tibetan spiritual leader appeared to indicate during an Oct. 25 speech in his exile home of Dharamsala in northern India. "I have been sincerely pursuing the middle way approach in dealing with China for a long time now but there hasn't been any positive response from the Chinese side," he was quoted as saying. "As far as I'm concerned...