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...professional writer, a crucial part of my job is analyzing other people's writing in order to make fun of it and feel superior. And by far the worst writing inflicted on the largest audience each year is the Academy Award acceptance speech. So on behalf of Oscar viewers everywhere, I offered my punch-up services for free to several of the nominees this time. All of them turned me down. Their main concern seemed to be revealing their speeches in advance to a journalist. They must be aware of the making-fun part...
...restaurant on Sunday, and I listened to what she had prepared. "I'd like to thank the Academy for making history tonight. I'm the first woman ..." This would be a good way to start the speech if this were 1976, and she had been elected President of the United States. Then Anna went on to thank the director, the studio and some other people I cared about only slightly more than sound mixers...
...that led to Prachanda's resignation as Prime Minister last year. India's military academies have historically been the training ground for Nepal's top officers - the Nepali army chief graduated from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun - so the Maoists have long claimed, most famously in a fiery speech by Prachanda in December, that India backs the Nepal army and wants to restore the monarchy. Ironically, the influence of India is the one point on which the former King and the Maoist former Prime Minister agree. When Gyanendra was on the throne, he too chafed at any hint...
...talk at the end about wanting to develop the whole child was evident throughout the speech,” Krause said. “He was addressing every type of child, at every grade level...
...criticism pointed directly at Secretary Duncan’s earlier speech, Duncan-Andrade said that until basic human needs are met in underprivileged neighborhoods, the achievement gap will never be closed...