Word: speaker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women would change the world, have careers, build strong marriages, raise good children and keep their sense of humor. Hillary has been a beneficiary of these expectations, and as First Lady also their most conspicuous victim. Her Wellesley education and Yale law degree put her onstage (as the student speaker at her college commencement and later as one of the nation's "most influential" lawyers), but they also moved her to the side when her husband's Arkansas constituency chafed at her insistence on being called Ms. Rodham. They put her in a new kind of spotlight as the victorious...
...physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each discipline's interpretation of its origin. After a lively exchange of philosophies, the end result is one of measured synthesis and little surprise, as each speaker eventually acknowledges both the reality of the placebo effect and the still unknown source of its influence...
...lives of hundreds of millions in his hands. For that reason alone, it is important to listen to what Chinese President Jiang Zemin has to say if he does come to Harvard. However, he should be heard in a forum where tasteful protesters are welcomed more warmly than the speaker himself. It is important to show Chinese citizens that in the U.S., we give people their say, and challenge them without fear for our lives or livelihoods. It is important to show the world we are not afraid to listen to lies, or fight against them...
...House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
McCaffrey, who saw combat in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, responded to the Speaker's salvo with bemusement. He noted that the Administration is already doing nearly everything Gingrich demands, starting with a $178 million antidrug media campaign to be honchoed by none other than G.O.P. virtuecrat William Bennett...