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SUMMARY:Johnson & Strachan Distinguished Speaker Series with Steven Pearlstein and George Will
DESCRIPTION:Steven Pearlstein and George Will discuss “The Presidential Election: What the Outcome Could Mean for Business”  Steven Pearlstein,
 a Pulitzer Prize winning business and economics columnist for the 
Washington Post, is the newest Robinson Professor, joining the GMU 
faculty in the fall of 2011. Professor Pearlstein grew up in Brookline, 
Mass. and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. in 1973 with
 a B.A. in American Studies. After several years as a reporter for small
 newspapers in New Hampshire, he moved to Washington to serve as 
administrative assistant to members of the House and Senate. He was a TV
 reporter for public television in Boston, senior editor at Inc. 
magazine, and founding editor and publisher of The Boston Observer, a 
monthly political magazine. He returned to Washington in 1988 as deputy 
business editor and, over the next 23 years, also served as the Post’s 
defense industry reporter, economics writer and Canadian correspondent. 
He became an opinion columnist in 2003, with a wide-ranging interest in 
business and economic topics of local, national and international 
interest.George F. Will
 is today's most widely read columnist. His newspaper column has been 
syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974. Today it appears twice 
weekly in approximately 400 newspapers in the United States and in 
Europe. In 1976, he became a regular contributing editor of Newsweek 
magazine, for which he provided a bimonthly essay until 2011.In 1977, he
 won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his newspaper columns. 
Altogether eight collections
 of Will's Newsweek and Washington Post columns have been published, the
 most recent being One Man's America. \n\nVenue: The Mason Inn\n\nStarting: October 31st 2012 11:30 am\n\nEnding: October 31st 2012 2:00 pm\n\nContact Person: Andrea Cordray\n\nContact Email: acordray@gmu.edu\n\nContact Phone: 703-993-4833\n\nRSVP at http://pearlsteinandwill.eventbrite.com/\n\nGet up to date information about this event at http://som.gmu.edu/component/eventcalendar/event/193\n\n
LOCATION:The Mason Inn
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