In her speech, Page invited the audience to imagine how the world might be if we were kinder to each other.
[Excerpt from speech, Page A10.] At the Pentagon, officials have proposed moving ahead quickly with developing and deploying a limited system that would include interceptors launched from Alaska and from naval cruisers that could be moved into global hot spots, as well as lasers mounted on Boeing 747 jumbo jets.
[Excerpts from the speech, Page A13.] Mr. Mahathir is retiring in a few months, and it seemed that the White House had decided not to pick an open fight with a prickly leader whom Mr. Bush praised in the Oval Office last year as a strong ally in the campaign against terrorism.
It concluded: "Counter-speech pages are not as active as populist rightwing pages … If they wish to reach more people, France and Italian counter-speech pages should produce more content.
In the UK, counter-speech pages have more contributors, but they interact less frequently than contributors to populist rightwing pages".
The researchers collected public posts and interaction data from the public Facebook pages of 150 far-right and counter-speech pages from the UK, France, Italy, and Hungary.
Meanwhile, the speech, 13 pages long, painted a stark picture of the fate confronting Europe as it struggles to deal with a stagnant economy and shrinking population.
He listed many successes - half his speech, 14 pages, was devoted to them.
In contrast to this easy repartee, his guest gave a rambling formal speech, a page of which blew away.
The Bush administration says we are in an energy crisis, yet in his recent energy speech (front page, May 1), Vice President Dick Cheney proposed drilling for oil that wouldn't hit the pumps for years.
Would a woman with the BBC business editor Robert Peston's amusingly idiosyncratic intonation – all elongated vowels and curious consonant stresses (there's a Facebook "Help raise funds to send Robert Peston for speech lessons" page) – have ever got on air?
