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Josh N. Weiss, associate director of Harvard’s Global Negotiation Project, agreed that Khalaf brought “balance” and an “important perspective” in her speech...
Khalaf’s speech was preceded by an introductory address by Kennedy School professor R. Nicholas Burns and a welcome address by World Bank senior health policy specialist Sameh El-Saharty...
...inspirational locker room speech in “Any Given Sunday,” Al Pacino’s character Tony D’Amato, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks, states, “The inches we need are everywhere around...
...Honest Confusion At least on the level of rhetoric, all the politicians and outside groups that have weighed in on health reform seem to agree: taxpayers shouldn't pay to fund abortion. "No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions," said Barack Obama in his speech to Congress on Sept. 8. His Democratic colleagues say they agree with the same principle, as do GOP leaders. That stance mirrors public opinion as well. A 2008 Zogby poll found that 69% of Americans oppose "taxpayer funding of abortion," which is currently governed by the decades-old Hyde Amendment, the law that...
...commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame in May, Obama talked about the critical importance of doing the hard work of hammering out compromise on difficult questions. In the health reform debate, however, the President has outsourced that job to people who aren't as enthusiastic about compromise. When Obama finally reached out to Stupak in mid-September, after the White House was stunned to learn that the Capps amendment hadn't eliminated pro-life concerns, it was with an impatient message. "Look, try to get this thing worked out among the Democrats," Stupak said Obama told him, according...