DALLAS, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to the circumstances surrounding Hurricane Rita, the September 28 Comerica Business Forum featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist George Will at the Hilton Americas Houston has been postponed.

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Will's speech on "The Political Argument Today" will be rescheduled for a future date.

For information, please contact the Comerica Bank Event Hotline at 214-969-6613. Pre-purchased tickets will be refunded.

The Comerica Business Forum in Dallas featuring speaker Tom Ridge on Tuesday, September 27, will continue as planned.

The Comerica Business Forum, now in its 12th year, is an exclusive speaker program featuring nationally-known experts in business, economics and world affairs. The Business Forum provides a venue for these experts to join local business leaders to discuss issues and trends affecting the world today. Previous Comerica Business Forum speakers include former President George H.W. Bush, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Michael Dell, The Honorable James Baker, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Lee Iacocca, and award-winning CNN business journalist Lou Dobbs.

George Will's newspaper column has been syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974. Today it appears twice weekly in just under 500 newspapers in the United States and Europe. In 1976, he became a regular contributing editor of Newsweek magazine, for which he provides a bimonthly back-page essay. Will has also published three books on political theory. In 1981, he became a founding panel member on ABC television's This Week. He has taught political philosophy at Michigan State University, the University of Toronto and Harvard University. He served as a staff member in the United States Senate from 1970 to 1972, and from 1973 through 1976, he was the Washington editor of National Review magazine.

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