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NEWS
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Student Life
Times columnist may visit
Thomas Friedman has been invited
to give fall ’06 lecture on his new book about changes in
the world.
By Alicia
Kania
The Shorthorn staff
While it has yet to be finalized, the foreign affairs columnist
for The New York Times has been invited to visit the university
next October.
Thomas Friedman, author of the renowned 2005 book The World is Flat:
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, was officially invited
by the Office of the President on Tuesday.
Danny Woodward, communications assistant for the President’s
Office, said they invited him to speak about the book and that they
hope to know his response by the end of this week. He added that
they had originally wanted him to come earlier, but his schedule
conflicted.
“We were trying to get him for spring, but he’s already
turning down 13 offers,” Woodward said.
Friedman has been invited to visit Oct. 9 and discuss his book,
which covers changes in the world over the last several years and
argues that “the world is one big place now.”
“Politicians quote it frequently,” Woodward said.
According to http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm,
Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and this is his
fourth book, dealing with the ways countries, individuals and governments
can cope with the changes prevalent in the world’s “flattening,”
and how these changes came about at the beginning of the century.
The New York Times reported that Friedman won the inaugural Financial
Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for The
World is Flat on Nov. 22.
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