Why? Roughly speaking, because it's the same personality.
By writing a letter, they cannot interrupt you while speaking, because it's all written down already.
The Bible trashing was done by one of the top-ranked leaders of the camp, who was always giving us speeches — sort of "making it real" so to speak, because it is a pretty contrived environment.
Above all, it must be spoken because it is the quintessential requirement of freedom: "The truth shall make you free". It is in the spirit of freedom from the burdens of past political blunders and poor judgment and the freedom to invent a new spirit of democracy in Ethiopia that I offer this commentary to the Ethiopian opposition.
The mummy dummy's a hoot: it can't speak, because it's got bandages over its mouth and its internal organs have been removed.
Conference organisers might approach you to speak because it's an opportunity to get exposure.
As evolving primates, we first learned to speak because it was more effective to hunt in groups that could communicate.
Mr. Jeremic said he had explained in writing to the group's representatives that they were welcome to attend the meeting but could not speak because it was intended as a forum for experts on criminal justice, not victims.
Of course it's easy for me to speak, because it wasn't my son, and if they kidnapped you, I would drive the whole world crazy to get you back, but a prime minister has to take considered, balanced decisions and to think of the public interests and not to behave as if it was his son".
Information — even when it comes in small packets — can tell you more than a hundred pregame analyses, such as John King's reporting during the Democratic Convention that Obama's camp had decided not to print signs with Bill Clinton's name for conventioneers to wave around when he spoke, because it was felt that he hadn't earned that privilege.
