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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ford Hall Forum<br>at Suffolk University</span></b><span style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>presents<br><br></span><b><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>THE POLITICS OF HANDSOME<br></span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paula Lyons </span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(<span class=apple-style-span>Executive Communications Coach</span>, Bates Communications),<br><b>Joyce Kulhawik </b>(Arts Critic & Advocate/<span class=MsoHyperlink> </span><span class=apple-style-span>JoycesChoices.com</span>),<br><b>Lauren Beckham Falcone </b>(WROR), and <b>Jan Saragoni </b>(President, Saragoni & Co.);<br><span style='color:black'>moderated<b> by</b></span><b> Margery Eagan</b> (Boston Herald Columnist; <span style='color:black;background:white'>Host 96.9 FM-Talk</span>)<br><br>Thurs., Oct. 25, 6:30-8 pm<br><br>Modern Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Boston, MA 02111) <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ford Hall Forum</span></strong> <b>at Suffolk University</b> presents <b>“<i>The Politics of Handsome”</i></b><i> </i>with <b>Paula Lyons</b>,<b> Joyce Kulhawik</b>,<b> Lauren Beckham Falcone</b>, and<b> Jan Saragoni</b><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>; discussion m</span><span style='color:black'>oderated by</span><b> Margery Eagan. </b>Thurs., Oct. 25, 6:30-8 pm. <span style='color:black'>Admission is free and open to all. </span>Modern Theatre (part of Suffolk University), 525 Washington St., Boston, MA. Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Downtown Crossing stop on the MBTA Orange and Silver Lines. For more information, call Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visit <a href="http://www.fordhallforum.org/">www.fordhallforum.org</a>.<br><br>Mitt Romney, Scott Brown, Senator Rob Portman, and many other self-described conservatives are the "Mad Men" of politics, evoking the age of Don Draper with retro style. In the shadow of our first African-American president, is this trend a return to a simpler age of the Cold War and domestic abundance? What sparked the trend to run these slicked-back, chiseled-jawed politicians? Two wars, the horrible economy, the need for a "Dad" in the driver's seat to see the USA in a Chevrolet? This all-female panel of Boston personalities, <b>Paula Lyons</b>, <b>Joyce Kulhawik, Lauren Beckham Falcone</b>, <b>Jan Saragoni</b>, and moderator <b>Margery Eagan</b> will explore some voters’ need to hearken back to when kids respected adults and neighbors knew each other. These days, when our government seems to be turning back the clock on women's issues, can style rescue us from weighty substance?<br><br><u>Further background information on participants</u>:<br><br><u><span style='color:black'>Margery Eagan<br></span></u><b><span style='color:black'>Margery Eagan</span></b><span style='color:black'> is a veteran columnist with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Boston Herald</span></a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>talk radio</span></a> host, and a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, Fox News, and the Imus in the Morning radio show. Her commentaries include gender/women's issues, Catholicism, and politics. Eagan was hired as a general assignment reporter at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Boston Herald</span></a> and started her own column in 1984. She served a "refining stint" as a senior writer at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Magazine"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Boston Magazine</span></a>, and returned to her column at the Herald, where she continues currently. She has received two nominations for GLAAD Media Awards in the category of Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Eagan also currently co-hosts a morning talk radio show with Jim Braude on Boston's WTKK-FM. She is a frequent presence on local Boston area television, notably WGBH's Greater Boston, on which she often appears as a panelist on that program's Friday evening "Beat the Press" edition, summarizing and critiquing media coverage of the prior week's news events.<br><br><u>Lauren Beckham Falcone<br></u></span><b><span style='color:#111111'>Lauren Beckham Falcone</span></b><span style='color:#111111'> is a sidekick on the “Loren & Wally Morning Show” on Boston’s WROR-FM. As the only </span><span style='color:#1A1A1A'>on-air female member of the show, she reads the news, shares her thoughts on life, and joins in the general fun of the program. She was the winner of the show’s Dancing with the WROR Stars and donated the $500 prize to the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. </span><span style='color:#111111'>Falcone worked at the Boston Herald for almost 18 years most recently as a columnist writing about pop culture, politics, news and other hot topics of the day. </span><span style='color:black'>An award-winning reporter and columnist for the Herald, she credits her current success as a pop-culture commentator to watching too much TV as a kid and scouring the Internet too much as an adult.<br><br><u>Joyce Kulhawik<br></u><b>Joyce Kulhawik</b>, best known as the Emmy Award-winning Arts and Entertainment Critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts advocate and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is the President of the Boston Theatre Critics Association and a Member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. <span style='text-transform:uppercase'>A </span>three-time cancer survivor, she served as the Honorary Chairperson since 1983 for the American Cancer Society’s largest Spring fundraiser and, as a member of the Society’s Advisory Board, continues to raise millions of dollars for the Society and its First Hope Lodge in Boston. The American Cancer Society honored Kulhawilk with its National Bronze Medal Award for her work. She continues to perform as a Guest Narrator and has performed with the Boston Pops, the New England Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, the Boston Civic Symphony, and the Concord Orchestra.<br><br><u>Paula Lyons<br></u><b>Paula Lyons</b> is an executive communications coach and senior communications consultant. As a sought-after speaker, writer, coach and media expert, she provides clients with the advice of a veteran with experienced on both sides of the podium and platform. Prior to joining Bates Communications in 2004, Lyons earned respect and accolades as a top-rated consumer reporter and familiar face on ABC’s Good Morning America, as well as two major market television stations in Boston, WBZ TV (CBS) and WCVB-TV (ABC). She won a number of regional Emmys for her work and for enterprise reporting from the Associated Press. Lyons is a regular panelist on National Public Radio’s weekly comedy quiz show, “Says You.”<br><br><u>Jan Saragoni<br></u>Saragoni & Company founder and President <b>Janice M. Saragoni</b> is a Boston native with more than 20 years experience in media relations, marketing and public affairs. Her firm’s experience in diverse business environments provides clients the ability to develop effective communications strategies and build important relationships that allow them to realize their goals. Saragoni has been named to several notable lists, including Boston magazine’s “Fabulous Forty” and its “Fifty Most Powerful People in Boston.” She is a regular on-air contributor to the “Emily Rooney Show” on WGBH-FM, where she co-hosts the “J-Squared” segment with WGBH-TV reporter Jared Bowen. Active in the public arena, Saragoni served as a director of several distinguished organizations including the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the Massachusetts Lottery Commission, and the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus. She is a member of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's Women's Lunch Committee and serves on the Executive Committee of Save Venice, an organization dedicated to preserving that city's artistic heritage.<br><br><u>Coming up next at Ford Hall Forum:<br><br></u></span><b><i>BUSINESS ETHICS AND OTHER OXYMORONS<br></i>Nitin Nohria </b>(Dean, Harvard Business School)<b> </b>and<b> Tom Peters </b>(Business Author);<br><span style='color:black'>moderated by</span><b> Donna Carpenter</b> (CEO, New Word City)<br>Thurs., Nov. 1, 7-8:30 pm<br><span style='color:black'>C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University<br><br></span><span style='color:#2A2A2A;background:white'>Two of the foremost minds on business, <b>Nitin Nohria</b>, Dean of Harvard Business School, and <b>Thomas J. Peters</b>, author of “In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies,” discuss teaching ethics to business students. Nohria and Peters share their wisdom on morally committing to your business, the misnomer of “corporate responsibility,” and teachable behavior <i>versus</i> intrinsic personal character. With guidance from moderator <b>Donna Carpenter</b>, CEO of New Word City, their conversation will span from partnering with others who aren’t ethical to serving the stakeholders. Between purpose and pay-offs, where are our principles in business today?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><i>Stay Tuned for Flash Forums<br></i>Flash Forums are programs that Ford Hall Forum plan to produce right when the news hits. Arranged roughly a week in advance, Flash Forums will bring in an expert speaker, either in person or via Skype, to deliberate on a hot-off-the-press issue.<br><br><u>About Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University: <i><span style='color:black'>"Provoking Thought: Listen. Learn. Engage”<br><b><br></b></span></i></u><b><span style='color:black'>Ford Hall </span>Forum </b>is the nation's oldest free public lecture series, providing <span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>an open venue for sharing opinions and discussing controversial points of view. It advances the First Amendment through freedom of expression, encouraging attendees to engage directly with speakers. Ford Hall Forum discussions illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking orators from a broad range of perspectives. These experts participate for free, and in settings that promote a culture of involvement in a non-partisan environment.<br><br></span></span>The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the Boston area with the generous support from state agencies, foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. In its 104th year of programming, the Forum continues to build upon its partnership with <b>Suffolk University</b>. Suffolk is now housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where the original Ford Hall once stood.<br><br>Ford Hall Forum programs are made possible through the generous contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including <span style='color:black'>American International Group (AIG), AMES Hotel, Broadway Video, The Fred & Marty Corneel Fund, Gray Media, Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, Helen Rees Literary Agency, Iron Mountain, Jackson & Company, Katz Nannis + Solomon, The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Penny Pimentel, The Pfizer Foundation, Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince Lobel & Tye, Saturday Night Live, Suffolk University, True North, and WBUR 90.9 FM.<br><br></span>For more information, call Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visit <a href="http://www.fordhallforum.org/">www.fordhallforum.org</a>. 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