[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Thomas Friedman to speak at MIT on May 16

Tue May 3 10:42:57 EDT 2005

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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.
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>Hope to see you there!
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>THREE-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER THOMAS FRIEDMAN
>TO SPEAK AT MIT ON MONDAY, MAY 16
>
>New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist and author to discuss globalization
>and the digital revolution, will sign copies of his new book The World is Flat
>CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (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, The World 
>is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
>
>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?
>
>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 The World is Flat 
>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005) will be available for purchase. 
>This event is sponsored by the MIT OpenCourseWare project (online at 
>http://ocw.mit.edu).
>
>Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, for 
>which he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He also was awarded 
>Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in 1983 and 1988.
>
>A world-renowned author and journalist, Friedman joined The New York Times 
>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 The New York Times, is syndicated to 
>700 newspapers worldwide.
>
>In addition to his new book, Friedman is also the author of >From Beirut 
>to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club 
>Awards in 1989 and was on The New York Times "Bestseller List" for nearly 
>12 months. Beirut 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 The Lexus 
>and the Olive Tree, 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. Lexus is now out in 27 languages. Longitudes and 
>Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, 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.
>
>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.
>
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