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...nomination, Gravel replied, “I’ve been a Democrat all my life and have been proud to be one. Anything is possible in politics. Who knows? I might still be able to win the Democratic Party nomination.” In an interview after the speech, Gravel said that he had no intention of endorsing the Democratic presidential nominee if he did not receive the party’s nod, adding that he would consider running on the Libertarian Party ticket or as a member of another third party. In his speech, Gravel condemned Obama...
...initiative, part of the society’s Islam Awareness Week. Khan discussed the similarities among people in different social situations, as well as how the fast—by showing sympathy for those affected by hunger—revealed this commonality. After Khan’s speech, Heather Danton, food security and livelihoods advisor for Save the Children, talked about the organization’s efforts to fight hunger around the world. Danton said the money raised from the Fast-A-Thon would go to the Horn of Africa and Pastoralist Initiative. Danton also said she appreciated the size...
...said. The script that got him his big break was an episode of “The Golden Girls,” which, though never produced, impressed enough to land him a job with “The Simpsons.”Much of Reiss’ speech was devoted to some of the more controversial elements of the show. He expressed incredulity at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s assertion that “The Simpsons” is “the most Christian show on television.”“The Archbishop of Canterbury...
...listening to the commencement speech is the single most important moment in a Harvard student’s life. Last year’s speaker, Bill Gates, waxed so poetic about “appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity,” that hundreds of graduates quit the lucrative jobs awaiting them on Wall Street and set off to change the world. When U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his eponymous plan for rebuilding Europe after the Second World War in his 1947 commencement address, there were almost certainly dozens of graduates still awake...
...This year, the richest woman in Britain joins an exclusive club, alongside luminaries like Prof. John Huston Finley, the Harvard classicist who delivered the 1982 speech, and publisher Louis B. Martin, the 1970 speaker. Neither has a Wikipedia entry dedicated to him, but at least they weren’t children’s book authors...