Word: speeches
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With those leanings in the back of his head, Brown says he was so moved by a speech given by then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok that he delayed his junior year in Cambridge to spend a year working for U.S. Representative Leon Panetta (D-Calif.) on Capitol Hill...
Students who attended the speech said they were impressed, although they were not sure what to expect at first...
...would also extend current spending limits and disclosure requirements to the organizations that air these advertisements in the last 60 days before an election. While some criticize these restrictions as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has already set wise limits on campaign reform laws that protect the interests of free speech while allowing Congress to stem widespread corruption...
...Even though President Clinton endorsed the broad themes of the report in a speech in New Zealand Wednesday, he knows as well as anyone that the U.S. is the worst offender ? and that American democracy often cripples the nation?s ability to respond to environmental challenges. "Few politicians are going to spend an election year warning voters that they?re going to have to cut back on their consumption of gasoline," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Even the limited cutbacks ? when measured against the scale of the crisis ? in greenhouse gas emissions envisaged in the landmark Kyoto accord signed...
...things." These habits are helpful in a job that demands a breadth of knowledge for potential comedy targets (he subscribes to 64 magazines and newspapers) and an acute ear for a star's persona, vocal rhythms and insecurities. Vilanch will be backstage with Raquel Welch before she gives a speech he wrote, and in the wings on Oscar night to cue Crystal's on-the-spot jokes about Jack Palance push...