The CCBC Essex Spotlight Speaker Series is designed to extend classroom learning, facilitate intellectual discourse, promote critical thinking, raise awareness about a wide range of topics (esp. diversity related subjects), present various perspectives and to promote values clarification.

CCBC Essex Spring 2007 Spotlight Speaker Series
Voted Baltimore Magazine's Best Speakers' Series in 2002


Ethics Week Keynote Speaker
Tom Ricks
Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post Pentagon Correspondent
Topic: War, Truth and Duty

Thursday, March 29, 2007
12:45pm - 1:45pm Lecture, J Building Lecture Hall
2:00pm - 3:00pm Reception

Thomas Ricks has covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post since 2000. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years.

He has reported on U.S. military activites in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Irag. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century. Ricks also was part of a Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for reporting about the beginning of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism.

His book, FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, was published by Penguin Press in July 2006. Born in Massachusettes in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated from Yale in 1977.

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