Word: spokes
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Clinton's acceptance of MIT's invitation brings his commencement speech total to three this spring. The President, who spoke at Princeton University last year, is also planning to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and Portland State University in Oregon, the Associated Press reported...
...during his address to a schoolhouse in Uganda at the end of March: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Unlike the nebulous details of the Lewinsky scandal, everything Clinton spoke of at that point is factually accurate. Slavery did exist, and slavery was wrong. White Americans, as members of a governing body which sanctioned and exploited slavery, have intentionally benefited from the consequences. That is wrong as well...
...wore a long, flowered dress and spoke in a musical, delicately accented voice, but beneath the soft-spoken demeanor was a sharp wit that at times set the audience laughing at her blunt words...
...panel was titled, "The Media and the Presidential Election," and Barlow spoke about how the computer age will change the entire process of government and politics...
...everybody I passed, both those I recognized and even those I didn't. And the result? It actually turned out to be quite a success. I reintroduced myself to lots of people I once knew, I met people I recognized but had never been introduced to and I even spoke a bit with some random passers-by. Though it was more of a psychology experiment than a real social situation, it reminded me that most people are very friendly but often have their guard up in public...