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Would You Want Jerry Springer as Commencement Speaker?
Nobody beats the New York Post for headline writing and masterful copy. For example: IF students at Northwestern Law School need to find out who their baby daddy is, or…
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Now this is a stretch
Mitch, you announced earlier this week that UNC-Chapel Hill had named Madeleine Albright to be its next commencement speaker. Well, The Daily Tar Heel wrote excitedly about the choice in…
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Re: that was quick
A commencement speaker doesn’t count, Mitch. Nor for that matter does a hastily designed “directorship” handmade for a failed national-ticket Democrat. Here’s why they don’t count: the university is bringing…
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Re: Gomes ? and the Cos
Drew ? Cosby delivered the commencement address in 2003. But oddly enough, he was chosen because he “is a powerful and eloquent speaker with a challenging message on the Bible’s…
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Re: Doctorow’s commencement address
Jon is absolutely right. The inhospitable treatment of Doctorow at Hofstra is going to be cited as proof that the problem on campus is intolerant conservatives. It would be so…
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The commencement of inanity
Novelist E.L. Doctorow devoted most of his 20-minute commencement speech at Hofstra University to bashing President Bush’s foreign and domestic policies and essentially calling him a liar. The booing started…
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Re: Advice for graduates
Drew, ol’ Bob Lee Swagger just wrote about commencement addresses, and he mentioned Ted Turner’s. Here’s what he said: Ted Turner at UNC in the early 90s was truly one…
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Advice for the graduates
Jon Stewart’s commencement speech at William and Mary is one for the ages. Sure beats the Ted Turner drivel at my UNC graduation. An appetizer: “Thank you Mr. President, I…
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A year later, USA Today weeps for poor Phil Donahue
In a sidebar to today’s article on the difficulties of being a commencement speaker, USA Today heavily whitewashed last year’s fiasco at N.C. State: Talk-show pioneer Phil Donahue was booed…
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Buckley at West Pointe on Kerry
A must read, even if you’re not a hawkish history nut. William F. Buckley?s 1971 commencement speech at West Point.