Issam Fares addresses the Tufts audience [left]. Gen. Colin Powell
talks to nearly
3,000 students, faculty, media and invited guests during the 2000
Fares Lecture.
Tufts President
John DiBiaggio [right] and Chairman of Tufts'
Board of Trustees Nathan Gantcher [left] present Issam Fares
with an honorary doctor of international public affairs.
Gen. Powell
takes questions during a press conference
at Tufts University.
While thousands of chairs were empty on Thursday morning, the
new Gantcher Family
Sports and Convocation Center was filled to capacity for Gen.
Powell's remarks.