commencement

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They did not want my fate to become their own, especially after I was booed off a commencement stage in Rockford, Illinois, for delivering an antiwar speech and became a punching bag for right-wing media.

From Salon

In his VMI commencement speech, Daniels said: “We have spent four years in preparation for something. What that something is, who we are, we do not know.”

From Washington Post

She follows other MIT commencement speakers including lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson, retired U.S.

From Seattle Times

She will be awarded an honorary degree at Harvard’s 369th commencement.

From Seattle Times

O’Connor was the commencement speaker that May at George Washington University Law School, where I was a tenured professor.

From Washington Post