<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/winter-2007/evening-global-proportions.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>An Evening of Global Proportions</title><excerpt>“Where else in the world does an Evangelical college invite a Jewish New York Times columnist to speak at a breakfast where a Presbyterian minister gives the invocation and the choir sings in Swahili? Is this a great country or what?” asked Thomas Friedman at the start of his talk for the second annual President’s Breakfast Feb. 28. About 830 people attended the popular event, which sold out in three hours. David McCullough spoke last year.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2007/05/friedman.jpg" alt="Thomas L. Friedman"/>
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