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But Barack Obama laid down an important marker at Invesco Field - and he may have convinced more than a few white working-class skeptics to give him a closer look when the debates roll around. He stood there not as an orator, but as a plausible chief executive. His message...
In the late ’70s and ’80s, as an editor in New York, I could only read and hear about his triumphs, fighting off the Reagan Administration’s attempts to retreat on civil rights and his legislative landmark, the Americans with Disabilities Act...
Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, at 11, with physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg as orator, and poet Carl Phillips. Sanders Theatre.
Segal, who graduated from the College as both class poet (an elected Class Day speaker) and Latin salutatorian (a Commencement orator based on class ranking), went on to pursue a career that straddled the line between academia and popular culture.
Hot air! Just pretty words! It's tempting to map John Adams on today's political campaign, with Jefferson as hope-mongering orator Barack Obama and Adams as pragmatic workhorse Hillary Clinton. But the analogy is not perfect. The complex Adams parallels a range of his successors. Like the current...