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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> ocw-mail-bounces@MIT.EDU
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Thomas Friedman to speak
at MIT on May 16</span></font></p>
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THOMAS FRIEDMAN</span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>TO SPEAK AT MIT ON MONDAY, MAY 16</span></font><br>
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New York Times<i><span style='font-style:italic'> Foreign Affairs Columnist and
author to discuss globalization<br>
and the digital revolution, will sign copies of his new book</span></i> The
World is Flat</b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>CAMBRIDGE</span></font></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>, </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>MASS.</span></b>
(May 3, 2005) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author
Thomas L. Friedman will speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday, May 16, 2005. Friedman's lecture, "The World is Flat," is open to the
public and will begin at 4 pm in Room 10-250 in the center of MIT's campus.
Friedman's lecture will be immediately followed by a reception and signing of his
new book,<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The World is Flat: A Brief History
of the Twenty-First Century</span></i>.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Friedman's speech will focus on the world as it stands today in the age
of globalization, and the convergence of technology that has allowed India,
China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain
for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle
classes of the world's two biggest nations and giving them a huge new stake in
the success of globalization. And, Friedman will ask, with this
"flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order
to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings
and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest will introduce Friedman in this
lecture that is open to the general public. The reception and book signing will
be held in MIT's Bush Room, Room 10-105. Copies of<i><span style='font-style:
italic'> The World is Flat</span></i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005)
will be available for purchase. This event is sponsored by the MIT
OpenCourseWare project (online at<u> http://ocw.mit.edu</u>).<br>
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Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
The New York Times</span></i>, for which he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for
commentary. He also was awarded Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in
1983 and 1988.<br>
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A world-renowned author and journalist, Friedman joined<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The New York Times</span></i> in 1981 as a financial
reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related news and later served as the
Chief Diplomatic, Chief White House, and International Economics
Correspondents. He has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the </span></font>Middle
East conflict, the end of the Cold War, U.S. domestic politics and foreign
policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist
threat. His Foreign Affairs Column, which appears twice a week in<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The New York Times,</span></i> is syndicated to 700
newspapers worldwide.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In addition to his new book, Friedman is also the author of<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> >From Beirut to Jerusalem</span></i>, which won
both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989 and was on<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The New York Times</span></i> "Bestseller
List" for nearly 12 months.<i><span style='font-style:italic'> </span></i></span></font><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Beirut</span></i> has been published in more than
20 languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic
textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman
also wrote<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The Lexus and the Olive Tree</span></i>,
one of the best-selling business books of 1999, and the winner of the 2000
Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy.<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Lexus</span></i> is now out in 27 languages<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After
September 11,</span></i> issued in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published
about September 11, as well as a diary of his private experiences and
reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled
from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Friedman graduated summa cum laude from </span></font>Brandeis University
with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and received a masters degree in Modern
Middle East Studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard
University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S.
universities. He lives in Bethesda, MD, with his wife, Ann, and their two
daughters.</p>
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