Purchased. All right. Tonights guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. In this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leaders motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. Drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and the International Institute of strategic studies shows how kims aggressive standoffs with world powers has put him at crossroads. The countrys increasing vulnerability to famine and crisis in the region. Now, please join me in giving dr. Lee a warm welcome. Ms. [applause] thank you very much. Its a real pleasure to be here, and i know that without my friends, i think, i would have had a very different audience. Its a real pleasure to be here at politics and prose. And i think the people who are most responsible for making me write this book, two of them are sitting in the audience. My ver
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Scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandals where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds, and it brought about many changes in baseball including getting a commissioner and getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that is not really a simple one. It is very complicated. So, the title of tonights talk is called field of myths, 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal. Finally separating the many myths from the reality. And so this should be a fascinating talk and im excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker to night. Thank you. Yeah, we are gathered here tonight on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew if there was going to be another world series once that scandal was exposed and whether trust in baseball was starting to evaporate rapidly. And as david said, thats, you know, eight men out. That is the story that we know. That is the t