Ashcroft tells Northwest University grads to give life real meaning [View All]

[icymist]

Sunday, May 8, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 a.m.




Ashcroft tells Northwest University grads to give life real meaning

By Rachel Tuinstra

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

It is the "presence of consequence that gives freedom its meaning," former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told the graduating class of Northwest University yesterday.

"You are not meaningless, you are meaningful," Ashcroft said as he looked out across a sea of more than 4,000 people — including 292 graduates — who gathered at Overlake Christian Church in Redmond for the commencement ceremony.

:puke:
(More)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002267361_ashcroft08.html