The opening section of the speech concerned one of Eno's longtime interests.
The opening of the planned speech - part of the Thatcher Papers archive at Churchill College, Cambridge - dispenses with usual conference niceties: "From the dark cloud falls an acid rain that eats into liberty," it begins.
The opening of his speech, to the union leaders and tonight at the cocktail party, offered a way of understanding this strange emptiness in his mind.
I was struck by how disconnected the specific policies Obama discussed were not only from the opening and close of the speech, but from one another.
In the opening of his speech in the General Council of Senegal, governor Henri de Lamothe proposed that the country should take a loan for infrastructure development.
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP 2.24am GMT The main thrust of the opening of the president's speech is that economic opportunity is growing in America -- but a strong undertow remains.
That's not the image most of us have of the chancellor, but he represents a constituency in the north west of England (Tatton, in Cheshire), and, as he said in the opening of his speech, he's the first chancellor to represent a seat in the north of England for more than 35 years.
The article profiles a new generation of journalists and critics testing the opening of free speech in Liberia at the time.
Though he briefly invoked the words of Abraham Lincoln at the opening of his speech, Mr. Bush referred directly to only one of his predecessors, Thomas Jefferson, who took office in a disputed election in 1800.
"I'm grateful to the president for leading us in those dark days following the worst attack on American soil in our history, and keeping us safe from another attack many thought was inevitable," he said at the opening of his speech.
