Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...WEST German citizens, we are disappointed with Harvard's choice of Chancellor Helmut Kohl as the Commencement speaker. Only three years after West German President Richard von Weizsacker gave a brilliant speech at Commencement, we will be embarassed to hear Kohl speak for Germans on such sensitive topics as reunification and Germany's relation to its past...
...Harvard-Radcliffe students, we are concerned that Kohl is not an appropriate speaker at an event that celebrates the conclusion of a liberal education. The most distinguishing characteristic of Chancellor Kohl is his relentless drive for power, which hardly qualifies him as a positive role model for graduating seniors...
...House, a bipartisan task force that tried to resolve the impasse came up empty after months of negotiations. Speaker Tom Foley and Republican leader Bob Michel last week made a last-ditch effort to achieve a compromise. Predictably, it failed. Now a bipartisan bill making such cosmetic changes as providing discounted rates for television commercials will probably pass. It will do almost nothing to curb the abuses...
...Hewett, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was an easy choice. One of America's foremost authorities on the Soviet economy, Hewett has written or edited five texts on the subject. These days, the peripatetic economist is in high demand as a speaker and seminar participant. Even Soviet policymakers seek his advice. He is especially close to Nikolai Petrakov, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, which gives Hewett an inside angle on the challenges facing the reformers in Moscow...
...Gore are all up for re-election and have pledged their loyalties to their constituencies -- for now. So have Governors Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Mario Cuomo of New York, Senators Charles Robb of Virginia and George Mitchell of Maine, and such congressional possibilities as Schroeder, Gephardt and Speaker Tom Foley...