Word: speech
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...local library ordered by the series - was too busy to notice. After the accident, Maria was the first name my father could say after he pronounced his own. Hers was the first face he could recognize. Last weekend, when my older sister substituted for our mom at a speech therapy session, my father immediately asked her where her mother was. It is clear to everyone - family, friends, nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers - that in the midst of the confusion and cloudiness that have seized control of my father's consciousness, my mother is the one thing he can still...
...First Amendment protects the right to waste somebody's time," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "In all political speech there's an element of caveat emptor - it's up to the consumer to discern how truthful what they're reading and hearing is." In addition, says Sanders, "political speech receives the most protection of any type of speech under the First Amendment. And as part of political speech, parody is protected. The question is at what point does a parody descend into what might be considered fraudulent activity, in which you're soliciting money under false pretenses." On that...
...speech, Jones urged College students to get involved in prisons and in the movement for prison reform. Prisoners are eager to make use of any education programs available, she said...
...problem with a forked tongue. First he spoke in English and struck a conciliatory tone, expressing understanding for both sides of the conflict and sympathy for two farmers shot dead in the last five days, and extolling racial reconciliation as his country's prime export. But hours later, in speech delivered in Shona, he denounced white farmers as "our enemies, not just political enemies, but definite enemies in wanting to reverse our revolution and our independence." Mugabe's remarks, which come amid rising tensions brought on by the land invasions his government initiated after losing a February referendum that would...
Nice words. They could go into a speech on Oscar night 30 years from now, when actor-director-writer-producer Edward Norton accepts the Irving G. Thalberg Award...