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A project of faith, a crusade of sorts,
and it has been
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ever since its founders declared
that financial success comes from God
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and that wealth
is a sign of divine favor.
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Now, why is starvation a problem?
First, the facts.
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As we all know, investment
and exports have been on the rise...
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There's some bad news.
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There's some really bad news
that came down in the last two days.
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The conference in Australia...
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the people from the conference
in Australia wrote an e-mail
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saying that the conference has been
canceled because of low enrollment.
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In some ways
it's really kind of, I guess,
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a nice thing
that there was underenrollment
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because it was really
a hideous conference
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and it seemed like a really dire thing
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that people would actually
want to go to that thing.
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And so, it's really
encouraging for humanity
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that the conference
actually has been canceled.
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But at the same time, it's really
made things difficult for us.
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So I wrote back to them
as Hildegard West
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and I asked them if they
would please set up another venue
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because Kinnithrung Sprat
is already en route to Australia.
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So right now I'm waiting to see
if they come back to us
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with a suggestion that they'll actually
have a public presentation,
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but since the conference
has been canceled,
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now the event in Plattsburgh might be
the only venue we have for this lecture.
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So it's really important now that we get
the lecture done and sort of together.
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So it's no longer a dress rehearsal.
It's actually, like, the final production.
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It's about time.
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I was so worried about your shoes.
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This guy brought
real shoes for you. Look.
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Do we have the hamburgers yet?
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- We have to pick them up.
- You mentioned...
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They're ordered.
Richard ordered them already.
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- That's fantastic.
- We pick them up?
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Basically, there's this guy
named Richard Robbins who I met
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at a conference
about a month ago,
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and he has written
several books on globalization.
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He was interested
in having the WTO
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come speak
at the Economics Department.