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...After a typically cordial introduction that emphasized her achievements as president of Ireland, Robinson delivered an uncontroversial speech entitled “Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time Has Come.” It was a far cry from an earlier event that focused on Robinson??s leadership...
...course, the solution last night was not to violently target Robinson??s speech, however controversial her role at Durban may have been. Free speech is vital everywhere, nowhere more so than at universities. Unfortunately, those who protest rational, measured contributions on one side but overlook violent tactics on the other have become tools of the censorship and restricted academic liberties they supposedly argue against. In this instance, free speech prevailed, and Robinson was able to convincingly distance herself from the chaos at Durban and highlight her achievements as high commissioner. Just as important as her condemnation...
Moynihan is the first non-economist to give the commencement speech since former Irish president Mary Robinson??s 1998 address. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin ’60 were the last three speakers selected...
...movement for slavery reparations was sparked in part by Randall Robinson, a Harvard Law School graduate, who co-chairs the reparations committee with Ogletree. According to Ogletree, Robinson??s book, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, stirred much of the recent debate on reparations...
UMass took charge after that, scoring four goals over the next five minutes—including two by Robinson??to take a 6-3 lead it would not relinquish...