Word: speeches
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...next few weeks a three-member administrative panel, set up under state regulations, will consider Rivers' appeal. At issue will be fundamental questions of free speech, due process and parental rights. But also, perhaps, a matter of common courtesy. "I could have walked into school on Aug. 31 without telling anyone," Rivers says. "How rude would that have been...
President Jiang faces a tricky balancing act these days, made more so by the Clinton Administration's egregious failure to accept a World Trade Organization agreement in April. His speech to the FORTUNE forum included some hard-line words about Taiwan and about America's penchant to preach and meddle. "Every country has the right to choose the social system, ideology, economic system and path of development that suit its national conditions," he said. But the significant message he stressed in his talk was that economic and political liberalization would continue. "The Chinese people," he said, "will firmly and unswervingly...
Amid the outrage and grandstanding in the exhibition, some crucial issues swiftly show themselves: Should the largesse of public funding be allowed to circumscribe free speech? Can unhindered expression, in its turn, become sheer offense? And how ironclad are the constitutional protections for edgy art that may amount to hate speech? In the end, art can be political, but it cannot affect the world the way politicians can. Says Bill Ivey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: "The damage can outlast the politics of the moment...
After his 1996 accident, Haryanto became an advocate for workers' rights in Indonesia. Last night he addressed about 50 students and community members in Sever Hall, in a speech sponsored by the anti-sweatshop campaign of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
Beach said Haryanto's speech humanizes the issue of sweatshop labor at Harvard...