THE THREE BASIC RULES FOR any speech are: Start with a laugh, put the meat in the middle, and wave the flag at the end. Most important is to have a rapport with your audience. You can do it several ...

It was the summer of 1998, the end of her junior year of college, when Sarah Hurwitz fell in love with the art form of writing the perfect speech, having scored an internship at the White House in ...

The key to giving a great speech is actually writing a great speech. All the speech-related advice out there focuses on our collective (and completely rational) fear of public speaking. What if I told ...

Have a role to play in the nuptials of a friend or family member? Professional speechwriter Alex Dymoke gives his advice on ...

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres is headed to the University of South Carolina. Vice President Mike Pence is off to the University of Notre Dame. Apple chief executive Tim Cook will be at MIT, ...

There are two things that Basketball Hall of Fame inductees have to do before they’re enshrined in Springfield, Mass. The first thing they have to do is be phenomenally good at basketball or make such ...

Joanne O'Mara receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It’s hard for parents to help kids with homework without doing it ...

If you’ve been charged with saying a few words about the newlyweds, here are some tips to help ease your anxiety and inspire you to speak from the heart. By Dina Gachman Massive parties with 10-piece ...

Being asked to be a maid of honor (or "MOH") is a very special occurrence. It's a bride's way of telling you how important you are to them and to their relationship. Whether it's a sister or a best ...

Host Emma Choi shares the latest in graduation news with Wait Wait panelist Hari Kondabolu (and no, it's not that another one of your high school bullies is going to nursing school): The U.S. has a ...

More brides are doing speeches than ever before, according to professional wedding speech-writing company Speechy, which revealed a 420% rise in the number of bride templates and bespoke speeches it ...

DEAR ABBY: My best friend, “Sophie,” just became engaged to her longtime boyfriend, “Brian.” I want to be happy for her, but he doesn’t deserve her. She knows it, but she won’t leave. My problem is, I ...