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Hobby Center Brilliant Lecture Series: Kofi Annan In February, the Hobby Center's Brilliant Lecture Series welcomed Sir Sidney Poitier. This month continues the series with Kofi Annan of Ghana. Annan was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of its staff. He began his first term on 1 January 1997 and completed his second, and final, term on 31 December 2006. His priorities as secretary-general were...

A Conversation with Sir Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier is known the world over for his sensitive and powerful portrayals in such socially charged films as Cry, the Beloved Country, The Defiant Ones, To Sir With Love, In The Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field (for which he received his first Oscar) and many others. This actor, director, best selling author, husband, father, grandfather and quite recently, great-grandfather has...