Word: speeches
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...Chinese, and the interpretation was not good. Some Chinese academics in the U.S. who listened to the press conference in Beijing say Clinton's polite, subtly worded protest about the loss of life at Tiananmen Square did not come across to ordinary Chinese. Even worse was Clinton's centerpiece speech at Peking University, where the State Department interpreter had major difficulties, breaking off sentences to start new ones, leaving some key phrases untranslated. The result was disappointing. The Chinese host of the broadcast criticized the interpreter outright, and a Beijing official later observed to his daughter in the U.S. that...
...birth of the women's movement at Seneca Falls, N.Y., it again became apparent that Hillary Clinton will never be an old-fashioned First Lady. To the 14,000 people who came out to see her--filling a football field from end zone to end zone--she gave a speech that she had been up writing most of the night. It touched on many of the causes she has long advocated: equal pay for women, affordable child care, gun control, guaranteed pensions and--yes--universal health care. Noting that the leaders of Seneca Falls had been called "mannish women...
Remember this scene? San Diego, 1996. Bob Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast...
SEMINAR TOPICS This year Davos was a marathon of meetings on such topics as "Governing Globalization" and "Islam in the 21st Century." Hillary Clinton brought the house down with a determined and charming closing speech, delivered as Monica Lewinsky was exploding onto the Washington scene back...
...screens on their stomachs that transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television. So what? say kids'-TV veteran Wood, 60, and co-creator Andrew Davenport, 33, a trained speech therapist and former performance artist; they insist that Teletubbies helps children acquire language skills. "Children are able to make their own meaning from it," says Wood. "We don't have an adult on there telling them what to think...