And before he died, he took the time to work with a writer, Jeffrey Zaslow, to create a book, The Last Lecture, which has become a national bestseller and a personal favorite of mine.
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Delivering the Orwell Lecture last week, he said most journalists didn't want the courts, the state, Europe or MPs to regulate the press.
The lecture was launched last year by inaugural speaker, The Who's Pete Townshend.
At the last minute, Friends of Israel cancelled his lecture.
In January last year he gave a lecture at the UCSD Cancer Center on "in vivo protein transduction, " a means to deliver biologically active molecules, such as therapeutic peptides and proteins, inside the cell.
Otaiba's concerns were echoed last Friday by Kahlili in a public lecture at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
In a lecture last year he said that without Scotland, the UK would be a "very different thing" and its constitutional relationship with Wales "would require a much more radical reconsideration".
"Wall Street is often the last to know, " says Ellison, who can be quick to lecture.
Last year, he earned more than eight million dollars on the lecture circuit.
Last month, Abou El Fadl had been scheduled to lecture at the University of Kuwait on the subject of Islam and democracy.
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Mr. Ershaghi, the USC professor, visited Beijing last July at his former student's request to lecture Sinopec managers and engineers on shale-gas production.
Speaking to a standing-room-only lecture hall lined with dozens of students and faculty members, he spent the last minutes of his presentation reading off the names of students, post-doctoral fellows, collaborating groups and funding sources from a projected slide that listed even more of them.
Sushil Wadhwani, a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee and distinguished economist, made his own contribution to that debate in a lecture last night.
The profound concerns of the UK Statistics Authority at this kind of ministerial behaviour are reflected in a lecture Sir Michael gave at Cambridge University last year.
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