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Miemie Winn Byrd '89, associate professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; "Combating Terrorism with Socioeconomics: Leveraging the Private Sector" (12:15 p.m.)  

Rudi Matthee, professor of Middle Eastern history, University of Delaware; author, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) and The Politics of Trade in Safavid: Silk for Silver…

Neil Budde, vice president, editor in chief, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports; founding editor and publisher, The Wall Street Journal Online; "The Future of the Fourth Estate"  

Leora Batnitzky, associate professor of religion, acting director, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University; author, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Lavinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and Idolatry…

Harry McMahon '75 P'08 P'09, vice chairman, Executive Client Coverage Group, Merrill Lynch; "2007 Claremont Finance Conference: Investment Banking Still Rocks" (12:00 p.m.)  

Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Music and Conversation"  

Richard Peterson, managing partner, Market Psychology Consulting; author, Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money (2007); "Inside the Investor's Brain"  

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate in literature (2006); professor of comparative literature, Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; author, Other Colors: Essays and a Story (2007) and Istanbul: Memories and…

David Talbot, founder, former editor-in-chief, Salon.com; author, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007); "Why JKF is Still Ahead of His Time"  

Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003); distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Trouble with Poetry and Other P…