Word: speech
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Also on Saturday, at a Democratic fund-raiser President Clinton pointed out that the future of free access to abortion may rest in the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. His speech, juxtaposed with the announcement by the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she is continuing successful treatment for colon cancer, reminds us just how significant each position on the Court really...
Other highlights of the event included a cake made in the shape of Phillips Brooks House, donated by Alden Merrell Cheesecake Company, and a speech by Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals...
...over the millennial weekend: one of a visibly weakened man. The vigorous 58-year-old elected in 1978 to challenge communism suffers from the onset of Parkinson's disease, limps and has terrible difficulty negotiating steps. His left arm shakes, at times uncontrollably. His face is rigid, and his speech is slurred. At the end of 1999, his aides moved him around St. Peter's Basilica with a pushcart...
...Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin retells the whole tale with gusto and adds some fresh details. One example: a moist-eyed Clinton hails the Travelgate-embattled Hillary in his 1996 State of the Union Address as a "wonderful wife [and] magnificent mother"--and then autographs a copy of the speech as a gift for Monica Lewinsky. Toobin doesn't shy away from the story's tawdriest moments--like the Jones camp's suggestion that Clinton may have undergone surgery to remove the "distinguishing characteristics" on his penis that Jones claims to have seen...
...approved at least some efforts at change. In a ruling Monday, the high court allowed the state of Missouri to maintain its six-year-old $1,000 cap on contributions to candidates in state races. Last year, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the limit unconstitutionally limited free speech because it hampered the ability of candidates to raise funds to promote their candidacies. It based its argument, in part, on the notion that the $1,000 cap derived from a limit imposed by Congress for federal races in the '70s, and that in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Missouri limit...