Word: speech
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...second, more pervasive myth is that Harvard undergraduates are somehow restrained from expressing our views about controversial issues like the situation in the Middle East by a fear of offending our neighbors. This viewpoint has a certain validity; in recent years, concern about speech codes and a general trend towards "political correctness" has led to increased sensitivity, and some would argue censorship, on campus. Reduced to its essence, however, this argument seems more of a cop-out and less of an actual explanation as to why public dialogue about the Middle East situation is absent on the average undergraduate...
...worked extensively within PBHA since his sophomore year, used his speech time to reflect on the group's achievements and to look ahead to new opportunities...
...doubt produce reams of op-ed copy in both the U.S. and Vietnam. But as President Clinton insists, Vietnam is not simply a war, but a country with whom the U.S. needs a relationship. And although he paid tribute to the war dead on both sides in an unprecedented speech Friday, the President and his Vietnamese hosts will spend less time dwelling on the painful past than on reshaping the future. "We cannot do anything about the past but what we can do is change the future," President Clinton said, and that's a message the Vietnamese leadership appears ready...
...knows which of the presidential candidates will deliver a victory speech, and which will be conceding, but the two addresses will sound pretty much the same, former White House Chief Speechwriter Michael Waldman predicted at a Leverett House gathering last night...
Simplicity is key, he said, quoting a maxim from John F. Kennedy's speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen: "never use two words where you can use one, and never use a two-syllable word where one will do." The speechwriter must write in the voice of the speech-giver, with a thorough understanding of his or her political position...