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Oprah Winfrey gets into her Howard University commencement address. (AP) Ah, spring. Strappy sandals come out of hiding, Adrian Higgins perks up, and a corny-copia of rubber-chicken circuit regulars, politicians, people with inscrutable job titles and, inevitably, a handful of celebs, descend on academia to deliver this year's spate of commencement addresses at the nation's universities. The topic of big name graduation speakers came up in last week's Celebritology Live discussion and I was heartened to learn that many other college graduates did not have to sit through an interminable lecture from (then) Virginia governor George Allen on their big days. (Neither did I, actually. I skipped it in favor of nursing a hangover.) Jon Stewart returned to his alma mater, William & Mary, in 2004 to warn graduates to "aim low" and "love what you do." This year, out of the 684 commencement speakers listed by the Chronicle
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