Topic: Ira Glass

How to Become a Famous Commencement Speaker Without Really Trying

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As we enter Memorial Day weekend, the season of celebrity commencement speeches is drawing to a close once again, and among the many loftier bits of rhetoric graduating seniors are bound to forget, our nation's elite speakers imparted some valuable life lessons.

By Ray Gustini

Oct 15, 2011

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