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Subject: Thomas Friedman to speak at MIT on May 16<br>
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Just wanted to drop everyone a line and invite you to this lecture by
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times on Monday, May 16. Please invite
people in your departments. The event is free and open to the entire MIT
Community.<br><br>
Hope to see you there!<br><br>
Best,<br>
Jon Paul Potts<br>
MIT OCW Communications Manager<br><br>
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<font size=4><b>THREE-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER THOMAS
FRIEDMAN</b></font><br>
<font size=4><b>TO SPEAK AT MIT ON MONDAY, MAY 16</font><br><br>
New York Times<i> Foreign Affairs Columnist and author to discuss
globalization<br>
and the digital revolution, will sign copies of his new book</i> The
World is Flat</b><br>
<b>CAMBRIDGE, MASS.</b> (April 28, 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> The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century</i>.<br><br>
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?<br><br>
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> The
World is Flat</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><br>
Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for<i> The New York Times</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><br>
A world-renowned author and journalist, Friedman joined<i> The New York
Times</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 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> The
New York Times,</i> is syndicated to 700 newspapers worldwide.<br>
<br>
In addition to his new book, Friedman is also the author of<i> >From
Beirut to Jerusalem</i>, which won both the National Book and the
Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989 and was on<i> The New York Times</i>
"Bestseller List" for nearly 12 months.<i> Beirut</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> The Lexus and the Olive
Tree</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> Lexus</i> is now out in 27 languages<i>. Longitudes
and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11,</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.<br><br>
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from 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.<br><br>
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