Communities with inclusion and id like to take a moment to recognize our members attending today. They continue to be the background of support for the club and help enable us to offer wonderful and diverse programming now and in the future and we also like to welcome members of the 20 20 class of fellows with rising nexgen business. [inaudible] its an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, trustee at the economic club, deanna mulligan. Deanna was chief executive officer in 2011 and served in that role until this month. She joined in 2008 the Vice President to leave the company in its Spiritual Life and was appointed to presidency operating officer assured as a trustee on the board of the vanguard group, a position she held since 2017 and has a background in both energy and operational themes. [inaudible] she was previously a director on the board of arts council and active in the industry and in the daa and directors of life insurers and the department of Financial Service
The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only one of four writers in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice i am talking about none other than none other than colson whitehea whiteheads most recent novel, the nickel boys won this years pulitzer as did his 2016 novel the underground railroad. Colson has an extraordinary ability to write about historical events and transform them into meaningful events of today the rewriter of literary fiction whose works are best sellers a testament to his talent to communicate to everyone wh
Ukraine. Im. All right lets begin with that breaking news coming out of sudans capital where an explosion has rocked a convoy carrying the Prime Minister abdullah one dog was traveling through khartoum around an hour ago when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others a short time ago the Prime Ministers office said it was an assassination attempt and lets go straight away to have a morgan he joins us by phone from khartoum what more do we know at this point. Well ive been woman make what we do know is that what we have from the office of the Prime Minister which was that it was and is happy mission and time now to keep current ongoing wars in the area called cobra which is not. Just about if you can on the way and he was on his way into his office when a car right in front of the convoy exploded now this is raising a lot of questions one of them being why is the car you dont want to date and because of the Prime Minister people know that you
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Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the executive director of the Society Fellows and heyman ceer humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you more about in a minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series whichondistinguise society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speakers and turn over the proceedings to nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, cou