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Monday, March 6,
2006 8:00 p.m.
Nicolas de Torrente - Executive Director of
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international humanitarian
organization. Founded in 1971 by a small group of French doctors, it is
committed to providing emergency medical care to victims of the South Asia
tsunami, people caught in armed conflicts, epidemics, natural and mad-made
disasters. Doctors Without Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
Nicolas de Torrente is Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders in the
United States. A Swiss national, Mr. de Torrente has worked extensively for
the organization and holds three degrees in International Studies, Law and
Diplomacy, and Economics. His work has taken him to Somalia, Liberia, the
Congo and Afghanistan investigating the humanitarian crisis.
Wednesday,
April 5, 2006 8:00 p.m.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Former President of the Soviet
Union & Nobel Laureate
Gorbachev served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its
dissolution in 1991. Known as a reformer, he began to democratize the
oppressive system he inherited, bringing an end to Communist rule in the
USSR and Eastern Europe. He helped bring about the end of the Cold War by
signing two broad disarmament pacts with the West. He initiated a period of
"perestroika," or government reform, that ushered in
democratic and capitalist reforms in the USSR and implemented a policy of
"glasnost," or openness. The country began to open public
discussions about current and historical problems to the media and
international community. His extraordinary achievements, earned him the 1990
Nobel Peace Prize. Wednesday, May 24,
2006 8:00 p.m.
Tom Wolfe - Best-selling Novelist & Social
Commentator
Wolfe is recognized around the world as the pre-eminent social
commentator of our time. For over three decades he has chronicled and
forecast American culture with a wit and insight that eludes most futurists.
Whether you know him as the Father of New Journalism, the author of The
Right Stuff or the man who gave the world The Bonfire of the Vanities,
Tom Wolfe is certainly one of America's greatest living writers. His latest
best-selling book is I am Charlotte Simmons.
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