Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will give a keynote address on the future of American health care, with an introduction and speech by U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland.
Adopting the approach of humanist historians before him, Machiavelli used the plural "histories," dividing his account into "books" with nonhistorical introductions and invented speeches presented as if they were actual reports.
Mr. Ryan, at the general session on Friday, playfully offered a rationale for Mr. Dooner's decision last month to acquire True North: "To avoid writing the introductions and the speeches" at the conference, "that little weasel went out and bought us.
The other networks had complained that those blacked-out portions, which included introductions of the President and speeches by Donald P. Hodel, the Secretary of the Interior, John F. Lehman Jr., the Secretary of the Navy, and President Francois Mitterrand of France constituted legitimate national news.
The advisers said they did not expect the two of them to hold a joint town-hall-style forum or other question-and-answer sessions, with either voters or the news media, preferring the controlled one-two punch of his introduction and her speech.
You should make reference to your argument as stated in your introduction, and your speech should follow the path you laid out in the beginning.
That said, if you do end up dealing with a serious topic, such as how to stay safe in a hurricane or tornado, make your introduction and overall speech fairly serious.
Another glimpse of the future occurred in late May, when Google brought 100 Palestinian and Israeli tech leaders to its new Tel Aviv headquarters for an afternoon of speeches, introductions and dealmaking.
The title page of "Between Parentheses" describes it as a collection of "essays, articles and speeches". In the introduction Ignacio Echevarría, a Spanish critic and editor whom Mr. Bolaño named as his literary executor, explains that the book should be seen as "a type of 'fragmented autobiography' " and "personal cartography" of Mr. Bolaño.
