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...that Hillary lacks regard for White House tradition. She has taken to her role like a student, reading 43 White House biographies and numerous histories (she impressed the White House Historical Association over tea with all her facts). She has debriefed other First Ladies, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during lunch in her Fifth Avenue apartment...
That said, it should still be a consideration that the speaker chosen should not be too bitterly divisive to the community being addressed. After all, Commencement is supposed to be a time for celebration and reflection, not dispute. In this regard, the selection of Colin Powell to speak at the 1993 Commencement is astonishingly inappropriate. This point has been made before, but it cannot be fully appreciated without considering the full range of issues that have arisen during the tenure of the Class of '93 that have so bitterly divided our community as to spark mass public protest...
...Inviting majority speakers who regard other minorities as inferior. If you haven't gotten the point yet, try imagining Leonard Jeffries as your Commencement speaker. And finally...
Anyone who thinks interactive television will change the world (and entertainment mogul Barry Diller recently bought into a video shopping network on just this premise) must regard the Home Shopping Network with some awe. It was the first major firm to take orders over the phone while selling its products on TV, and when it debuted on cable in 1982 it was an instant and wild success. The company has faltered in recent years, however, and now faces problems much worse than business reversals...
...have had to witness not just our claims to full citizenship, but our very right to exist, made subject to hearing and referendums. We have heard murderous fantasies, and seen real beatings, count as legitimate contributions to this debate. Now the most outspoken opponent of our rights in this regard--who can hardly bring himself even to condemn the violence that his own pronouncements have licensed in his ranks--will occupy the highest-profile podium that Harvard can afford him, and will there argue once more for the general unfitness of gay people to participate in the military. Meanwhile...