Word: thatcherism
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...Margaret Thatcher is no longer a mighty woman, of course; the last I heard, she was stumping in the midwest of America for the Republican party, which has fallen so far from mightiness itself that it is currently engaged in telling Americans how enraged they should be about oral...
...have to do is to look around the scene and ask yourself who is the mightiest woman of our time, and that would be Margaret Thatcher...yet Harvard has not seen fit to honor...
...view, there is no good reason to believe that there is a political litmus test at work in the selection of speakers. Many factors, not least of which is the availability of the speaker, are taken into account, and we doubt Thatcher has not been pursued at some time by the University. Moreover, the three world leaders Mansfield cited as "mediocre" are far from it. Robinson, for one, is a crusader for human rights worldwide who previously revolutionized the office of the Irish presidency...
...discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...view, there is no good reason to believe that there is a political litmus test at work in the selection of speakers. Many factors, not least of which is the availability of the speaker, are taken into account, and we doubt Thatcher has not been pursued at some time by the University. Moreover, the three world leaders Mansfield cited as "mediocre" are far from it. Robinson, for one, is a crusader for human rights worldwide who previously revolutionized the office of the Irish presidency...