Word: spokes
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...celebrated preacher--who compared his visit to Harvard to that of a mule at the Kentucky Derby--spoke on "The Real Meaning of the Cross," exhorting his listeners to turn to God, confess and repent their sins and embrace the cross...
President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernandez knew what his crowd wanted when he spoke to a packed ARCO Forum at the Institute of Politics Friday afternoon...
...opened up on George W. Bush and several other prominent GOP members. Speaking before California's Orange County Republicans, Forbes attacked Bush and Michigan Governor John Engler for failing to support a ballot initiative in Michigan creating a school voucher system. "Leadership means acting from principle," Forbes said. "I spoke out in favor of that referendum. Governor Bush has been silent." Throw in another mention of his longstanding criticism of Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist for saying he would support a state income tax, and the GOP leadership could be forgiven if they started making inquiries about a Reform Party membership...
...recently been finding myself finding myself fascinated by things that I would normally find disturbing. My ideas of beauty at that time had just started to change. I was wondering a lot about why I would find these things beautiful. I read the script and the speech spoke directly to me at the time. I think it is what I needed to hear...
Earlier this week, writer and social justice activist Leonard Fein spoke at Harvard Hillel. He described the combined-effects munitions, more commonly known as cluster bombs, and their hundreds of brightly-colored bomblets that spread out over a target, and I was reminded of Fulghum's words. Yet with a cluster bomb, the child's idyll world is horribly transformed...