Sunday, September 14, 2008

Sept 17 2008 - Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Thomas Friedman to speak at EMU

Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, will speak at Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 12:30 p.m. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.

All tickets are $30. Tickets are available by calling the EMU Box Office at 487- 2282.

The event is part of the Ann Arbor Business Review and the Washtenaw Economic Club Speaker Series.

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.

A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, 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 Times, is syndicated to 700 other newspapers worldwide.

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