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...thought she was highly articulate and very impressive, and very gracious when confronted with hostile questions,” said Mary Dalton Greer, an audience member who received a Harvard doctorate in music in 1996. Some felt that Albright should have addressed specific ways she would deal with the issues she presented in her book...
...interested in revisiting the debates of the past; there is plenty of fresh intellectual manna now to tussle over. And Benedict, with his rigorous academic background, is increasingly the focus of the attention. Indeed, the most highly charged moment of Benedict XVI's papacy thus far came in the gracious confines of a German university lecture hall. On that late afternoon of September 12, 2006, the Pope's discourse on faith, reason and violence at the University of Regensberg, where he'd once taught theology, was greeted with long and warm applause by the audience of academics proud that their...
...next lucky group that gets to matter less is journalists. In the final season, Simon goes inside the fictionalized offices of his former employer, the Baltimore Sun. (He credits the newspaper for being "gracious" enough to let him use the name.) The idea, says Simon, is to ask, while continuing to lay out the problems that manifest themselves in bodies and police cases, "What were [the journalists] doing when Rome was burning? What were they paying attention...
...meantime, Huckabee is standing by the Copelands. In an e-mail message to TIME, Huckabee maintained, "Kenneth and Gloria Copeland are about the most gracious, authentic, and humble people I know and I consider them dear friends. They have brought hope to millions and have operated with the utmost integrity as far as I know. I have found them to be as warm and genuine in their private moments as they are in their public moments...
...accompanied herself on piano, commanding a standing ovation. “She was like Alicia Keys,” says Brittany L. Turner ’10. But never fear—even after shaking the walls with the force of its deafening screams and thundering feet, the gracious audience still had plenty of energy to unleash at the after party...