Actually, i didnt talk about this today, but i actually went to law school, got a law degree as well because i was thinking that i dont want to do medicine, i want to do health policy, i want to be in government, i want to be in the middle of things. But then i took a step back because i realized i really liked seeing patients. There was something about being able to connect with people and making a difference this peoples lives that you cant replicate it in so many other areas of life. Despite all the hard work, thats what brought me back to it. It sounds like something you might read on a hallmark card, but there was something valuable that brought me back into medicine. Thats where i came from, from there. So, yeah. Any other final questions . Hurt. Oh, one more. [inaudible] if so, like what are some of the things that stand out to you . Do i review medical School Applications . Yeah, great question because, actually, i do. Ive been part of the Admissions Committee for a number of y
Station but entire people, and entire language group. First however, modern world works including what you think is the modern pristine roles of social democracies in scandinavia. Its not there. Its just more sophisticated allusion. At all about inches one cable gives you a sense of the wealth of information that is housed on wikileaks site. I want to thank julian assange, the middle of the night there for joining us. I think everyone who was happy to see you. [applause] thanks. And if the julian paved the way like the wizard of oz on the screen, lets remember as we leave that Chelsea Manning is behind bars, Edward Snowden is in exile, julian is in this embassy and other whistleblowers have had their lives ruined, have been targeted after under tremendous russia right now. All of you have one of these books. Make sure you tell your friends about it, talk about it on social media. Buy another copy and give it to someone. And most of all be out there in public whenever the crosshairs are
The post is a charter sponsor of the book festival , and it is my pleasure to introduce our guest for this program. Born in 1976 and is a staff writer for the new yorker. He writes about Foreign Affairs and politics, author of agent ambition chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the knew china. That won the National Book award. In the book he traces the rise of the individual in china and the clash between aspiration in the authoritarianism. He had this to say, and the pages of the new yorker evan oz knows has portrayed, explained, and poked fun at the state china better than any other writer from the leicester east eliminating the gilded age, appetite, challenges, and dilemmas in a way that few have done. Also is a contributor to this American Life on public radio and frontline. Before moving to the new yorker he was a beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune we contributed to a series that won the 2,008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The award for young journalists an