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Strobe Talbott, the president of the liberal Brookings Institution, and President Bill Clinton's former Deputy Secretary of State will be in Chapel Hill on Thursday to discuss "Obama and the World."

Talbott will be speaking at the Fedex Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at 5:30 p.m.

Talbott has been a friend of Clinton since they were Rhodes Scholars together at Oxford and worked in the George McGovern presidential campaign in 1972. Talbott had a distinguished career for Time magazine before becoming a diplomat.