Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detailed list of proposals--complete with a promise of $8 billion in new federal spending--aimed at expanding the role of charities, churches and community groups in helping the poor. A Republican's pledging to increase federal spending for the poor is novel in its own right. But the speech was less remarkable for its topic--supporting faith-based institutions is in vogue with candidates from both parties--than for how Bush used it to neutralize his critics on both the left and the right. By pursuing a liberal end with conservative means, Bush placed himself and his guiding philosophy...
...deliver the eulogy. But even if she didn't eulogize John, it was she and her children who became the emotional center of the service. She reminded the mourners about the love of literature that her mother had bestowed on her and John, and then read Prospero's speech from Shakespeare's The Tempest, a play in which he had performed. It was an acknowledgment that her brother had lived on a big stage but had understood that its "insubstantial pageant" would fade. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," she quoted, "and our little life is rounded...
...fact, have little to do with each other; the good die young, old and in between. It took Lincoln considerably less time to write the Gettysburg Address than it did for the Chinese to build their Great Wall, but given the choice, I for one would take the speech. Kennedy accomplished a number of quite valuable things in his life--specifically in programs for the disabled that helped the helpers of the disabled extend their education. The ripple effect of that sort of public service widens forever...
...school admissions. It's the latest effort of Ward Connerly, the controversial mixed-race businessman who got similar measures passed in California in 1996 and in Washington State last year. He's made Florida his next battleground, and he plans to travel there this week to make a major speech. But Connerly hopes Florida will also be something more: a vehicle for pushing his anti-affirmative-action crusade into the center of the presidential campaign...
...serve as chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention in 1992, but she stumped for Teddy and her cousin Patrick, a Rhode Island Congressman, late in the 1994 campaign. In 1998 she lent her name to the campaign against an anti-affirmative-action initiative in Washington State and gave a speech at a U.N. ceremony in which she implored the U.S. Senate to ratify an international treaty on children's rights...