President Karzai's inauguration speech sent the right message about moving in a new direction.

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Mr Karzai made some of the right noises in his inauguration speech, though the specific are yet to come.

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Indian author and social activist Mahasweta Devi gave the inauguration speech titled "O to Live Again" on Thursday morning.

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Obama has spoken out about the challenges confronting public education, most notably in his inauguration speech and most recently in his address before Congress.

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South Korea's new foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, said in his inauguration speech Monday that despite the "very grave" situation on the peninsula he hoped relations would improve with the North.

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He was asked to make a speech at the inauguration of a research institute in north-eastern China.

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But when Lea Rosh gave a speech at the inauguration of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial, she stunned the audience by brandishing a molar she found 17 years ago at Belzec, a Nazi concentration camp, and saying she would set it into one of the memorial's 2, 711 concrete pillars.

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Nothing epitomizes more this spirit than the speech delivered by Rafael Correa in his inauguration ceremony.

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In 1993, the prince gave a speech entitled Islam and the West at the inauguration of the centre's Distinguished Lecturer Programme.

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