Christopher Hitchens - Lecture @ UCLA 2-5

Christopher Hitchens delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA

Christopher Hitchens to deliver Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA
By Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon February 17, 2010 Category: Campus News
WHAT:
Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens will deliver the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA. The lecture is presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.

A well-known commentator on contemporary thought, politics and culture, Hitchens has written more than a dozen books and corresponded from more than 60 countries. He has contributed regularly to the Atlantic, Slate, Vanity Fair, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Washington Post Book World, the Nation, the National Review and the New Left Review, among other media outlets. Honored frequently for his reporting and the literary quality of his prose, Hitchens received a National Magazine Award in 2007 and was a finalist for a 2007 National Book Award. He appears frequently on radio and television broadcasts.

BACKGROUND:
Daniel Pearl was a prominent Wall Street Journal reporter and the paper's South Asia bureau chief when he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Pearl's father, Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA, and his family established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to promote and continue Daniel's mission of fostering cross-cultural understanding throughout the world. The lecture series, established at UCLA in 2002, features scholars, journalists and policymakers who have contributed original analyses or constructive approaches to problems of international concern.

Previous presenters of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture have included Anderson Cooper, David Brooks, Ted Koppel, Larry King, Jeff Greenfield, Daniel Schorr and Thomas Friedman. In 2006, a parallel lecture series was established at Stanford University, which has featured Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Philip Zimbardo, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Christiane Amanpour.

WHEN:
5--6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 3

WHERE:
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management

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@SpellboundSolution Correction: end UP beating both ends

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Funny, Answer in Genesis claims that atheists are to "blame" for capitalism and communism (I don't think it would be shameful if the former was true, then again I'm an objectivist). I guess that if you're continually beating a dead horse you'll end of beating both ends.