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 Terry
Breverton - Sunday, September 23,
3PM
"Pirates, Buccaneers & Swashbucklers -
From Black Bart to Johnny Depp"
Terry Breverton is an expert on both Pirates and
Buccaneers, and Welsh History. He is the author of fourteen books,
including "Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All,"
"The Pirate Dictionary," "The Pirate Handbook," "Admiral
Sir Henry Morgan," and numerous articles.
Mr.
Breverton is a recipient of the Helm Fellowship at the University of
Indiana.He lives in Wales and is a senior lecturer in marketing and
management at UWIC Business School in Cardiff.
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Fumito Nunoya, Sunday
November 16, 3PM
Classical
Marimba Concert
Acclaimed by the Boston Herald as “agile and terrifically talented,”
and by the Houston Chronicle as “magnetic… impressive,” Fumito Nunoya
won First Prize at the 2005 Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition. He
made his
U.S.
concerto debut with the Houston Symphony that year.
Mr.
Nunoya has won top prizes at many national and international
competitions including the PAS International Marimba Competition in
2003, the National Young Artist Competition in Texas in 2003, the 3rd
World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart, Germany in 2002, and the 10th
Japan Classic Music Competition in 2000.
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Jeff Jacoby Sunday,
December 7,
3PM
 Boston Globe Op-Ed Columnist
Jeff Jacoby has been an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe
since February 1994. Seeking a conservative voice, the Globe hired him
away from the Boston Herald, where he had been chief editorial writer
since 1987. The Boston Phoenix has dubbed his twice-weekly essays ''a
must-read,'' describing him as ''the region's pre-eminent spokesman
for Conservative Nation.''
Jacoby has
been a political commentator for WBUR, and hosted ''Talk of New
England,'' a weekly television program.
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Guy Raz,
Date TBA
NPR
Pentagon Correspondent / Nieman Fellow
Guy joined NPR in 1997 and became
Berlin bureau chief
in 2000. In 2003, he became NPR's London bureau chief. In 2004, Raz
left NPR for two years to work as CNN's Jerusalem correspondent.
During his six years abroad, Raz reported from more than 40
countries with a focus on
Iraq, Israel and the
Palestinian Territories, Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
His reporting has been part of two Alfred duPont Awards and one
Peabody
awarded to NPR. He's been a finalist for the Livingston Award four
times.
He has profiled and interviewed dozens of world leaders,
including Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, General David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs
Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen.
As CNN's
Jerusalem correspondent, Raz chronicled everything from the rise of
Hamas as a political power to the incapacitation of Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in
2005. In May 2004, he spent six weeks with U.S. forces in Najaf during
a period of heavy fighting with Shiite insurgents.
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