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When President John F. Kennedy went hatless during his Inauguration speech in 1961, he committed in essence a double homicide: of the hat industry and of the prospect that any bald man would ever have to the nation's highest office...
...support for microfinance, the practice of making small loans to poor individuals in developing countries. She said she had known nothing about global poverty and microfinance until her senior year at Harvard, when the circumstances of a close acquaintance in Israel moved her to take action. But after the speech, she said her lack of interest in the issue was less because of a dearth of opportunity than the fact that she simply did not take advantage of them. “Harvard prepared me in a great way for having my eyes opened, for asking questions, but it?...
...Thompson spoke. Marielle E. Woods ’08, one of the student organizers, noted that such numbers are actually ideal for the kind of dialogue the series is meant to foster.“It’s not an interview. It’s not a speech. It’s a conversation,” she said. Deutch and Thompson used the format to share several anecdotes about their experiences in the movies, starting with the one that brought them together. Now married for over 20 years, the two met on the set of 1987?...
...would argue that democracy and human rights are as rare in Cuba as meat and modern appliances. That was duly underscored on Wednesday when President Bush invited the relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents to the State Department for his first policy speech on Cuba in four years. But any expectation of a major policy shift was dissipated after listening to the President. Bush simply gussied up some of the same old bromides - "The socialist paradise is a tropical gulag" - that have marked U.S.-Cuban relations for decades...
Bush reiterated his hard stance against lifting the 45-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba if the seriously ill Fidel Castro, as expected, is succeeded by his brother Raul, who already runs the government. Predictably, Fidel said Bush's speech reflected the U.S.'s desire to "reconquer" Cuba. And the Castro brothers aren't exactly cowed by these traditional verbal assaults. They have thrived on it in the past: heated U.S. rhetoric usually bolsters their image at home as the island's anti-Yanqui defenders. With plenty of material support from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela (about 90,000 barrels...