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September 01, 2010 02:48 PM The Speech: Why Didn’t They Call Rewrite? by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules Presidential speeches are tricky things. It is in the nature of things — the nature, that is, of contemporary politics — that they consist largely of more or less empty rhetorical boilerplate punctuated here and there by bursts of forthrightness that, in the usual course of things, have been carefully calibrated by a team of [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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