Word: speeches
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University President Neil S. Rudenstine hinted at such plans in a speech to prospective first-years in April, and former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has spoken openly about the possibility of such a building...
...chattering classes begin to realize what Bradley already knows: he has maneuvered himself into position to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Al Gore. The former basketball star and three-term New Jersey Senator has just given what some are calling the most effective speech of his career, a fuzzy, conversational, unabashedly idealistic sermon that sells him as the savior of politics itself ("The American people have a right to be skeptical, but I have a right to try to change that skepticism"). Polls in key states put him in a dead heat with Gore. In the new TIME/CNN poll...
...does Bradley mark this euphoric moment? Half an hour after his big speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little...
Watson finished his speech by challenging geneticists to "always keep trying to improve the quality of human life...
...about bullfights or cockfights, or movies in which cruelty to animals is simulated for legitimate purposes but not actually carried out. Sanders doubts this case is Supreme Court material, but even if it did end up on the Justices' docket, there?s little chance of a ruling against free speech. "The First Amendment," he says, "is the most closely guarded Amendment in the Supreme Court...