Brown Daily Herald | Providence JournalNew York Times columnist
Thomas Friedman ducked pies tossed at him by two people who rushed the stage at Brown University just after he stepped to the microphone. "Friedman appeared uninjured and ready to continue his lecture, titled 'Hot, Flat and Crowded,' but audience members encouraged him to clean himself off," writes
Chaz Firestone. One student was apprehended.
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A flier read: "Friedman deserves a pie in the face because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism's conquest of the planet, for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change."
