Capsule Post: Powell Tells WFU Graduates to 'Do the right thing'

Mr. Jinx

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Mon May-17-04 02:57 PM
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Capsule Post: Powell Tells WFU Graduates to 'Do the right thing'

In his first Commencement address since becoming Secretary of State, Colin Powell told approximately 1,600 graduates at Wake Forest's Graduation Monday morning to �do the right thing,� a concept that applies to their personal lives as well as the challenges facing the United States today. �Moral clarity is a necessary first step for dealing with complexity. We have to know what we are for. We have to always know and do the right thing,� he said.

http://www.wfu.edu/wowf/2004/051704.html

For more on Powell's appearance:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/3312803/detail.html

And WFDD will rebroadcast Powell's speech at 6pm EDT- hear it on the web at:

http://www.wfdd.org/

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Wickerman

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Mon May-17-04 03:01 PM
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1. Do as I say, not as I do

and so one generation passes the torch to the next.

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Wind Dancer

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Wed May-19-04 08:10 PM
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5. Well said!

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prodigal_green

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Mon May-17-04 03:06 PM
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2. Did his head explode

in a poof of nonsense?

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Nay

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Mon May-17-04 04:06 PM
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3. Wish he'd take his own damn advice.

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BlackVelvetElvis

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Mon May-17-04 04:11 PM
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4. I wonder if it's better than the speech

that Dick Cheney will give tonight at Salem College.
<keep it quiet, no one is supposed to know he is in town!>

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