RSS 2.0 http://www.aifestival.org/feeds/rss2/ INSPIRED THINKING IN AN IDYLLIC SETTING http://www.aifestival.org/rss/ http://www.aifestival.org/images/2008/2008header.gif /news.php?year=2010&article=138 FriAMEDTE_Rthth Penn Schoen Berland conducted a poll exclusively for the Aspen Ideas Festival: Does the Constitution Still Work for 21st Century America? Check out the results below. PSB Constitution Poll for Aspen Ideas View more presentations from The Aspen Institute. /news.php?year=2010&article=137 ThuAMEDTE_Rthth A quick review of some of the amazing video available now from the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. /news.php?year=2010&article=132 TueAMEDTE_Rthth Unfortunately, RNC Chairman Michael Steele was forced to cancel his appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival. We apologize for the late notice. Thanks.  /news.php?year=2010&article=131 TueAMEDTE_Rthth Check out www.aifestival.org/watchlive to catch selected events from throughout the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. Keep an eye on @aspeninstitute on Twitter to see what sessions are coming up.  /news.php?year=2010&article=130 MonAMEDTE_Rthth There are more than 180 sessions and 300 speakers at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout this week full of stimulating conversations, you can tune in to two or three lives sessions each day. Check out www.aifestival.org/watchlive. /news.php?year=2010&article=129 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Want to keep up with the Aspen Ideas Festival right from your phone? You can do so with the Aspen Ideas Festival Mobile App. The app includes a schedule, speaker photos and bios, a Twitter interface, photos and video. The app is available in the iTunes store, the Android App Marketplace or for Blackberry mobile devices with Blackberry OS 5.0 or higher here. /news.php?year=2010&article=128 SunAMEDTE_Rthth The Aspen Ideas Festival schedule is available now. Due to the nature of our fast-moving schedule, some of this information has been overtaken by other events. Attendees will receive an addendum informing them of all the changes that have unfolded since this schedule was published. Download the schedule now. /news.php?year=2010&article=127 FriAMEDTE_Rthth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jennifer Myers Deputy Director of Communications, The Aspen Institute 202-736-2906/jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org Zachary Hastings Hooper The Atlantic 202-862-4355/zachary@rosengrouppr.com   Washington, DC, June 25, 2010 –– Single ticket sales for the Aspen Ideas Festival’s public events begin June 28 through Aspen Show Tickets at the Wheeler Opera House, in person, online at www.aspenshowtickets.com, or by calling 970-920-5770. Although full festival passes are sold out, a number of sessions – from 3D film screenings to a comedy night to an afternoon of conversation in the Benedict Music Tent – are open to the entire community, starting at just $20.   “This year’s Aspen Ideas Festival will bring new faces and important ideas and issues to the fore,” said Kitty Boone, vice president of public programs at the Aspen Institute and Aspen Ideas Festival director. “By providing ticket opportunities to citizens and visitors to the Roaring Fork Valley, we hope to engage an even broader audience in the sharing and disseminating of ideas and information. We hope that people across the community will participate in something, whether it is our free showing of Shrek Forever After in our new Paepcke Auditorium (now outfitted with 3D), the Mini Makers Faire at the Base of Aspen Mountain throughout the day on July 10, or a talk at Belly Up, Hotel Jerome, Limelight Hotel, or St. Regis throughout the week.”   Notable public events include:   July 5   • Shrek Forever After (3D), DreamWorks Animation SKG’s latest hit, inaugurates Paepcke Auditorium’s 3D capacity. Paepcke Auditorium, 8:00 pm (Tickets are free, but required)     July 6   • Is Social Media Transforming Journalism? featuring Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, The Atlantic’s James Bennet, Vivian Schiller, head of NPR, Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington and media mogul Strauss Zelnick, and moderated by Charlie Firestone. Belly Up, 7:30 pm (Tickets are $20)   • Journey into the Third Dimension: Presentation and Discussion with DreamWorks Animation, SKG Producers featuring John Batter and Jim Mainard. Paepcke Auditorium, 8:00 pm (Tickets are $20)   July 7   • Waiting for Superman: A Film - Following a handful of promising kids, Oscar Award-winner Davis Guggenheim takes a profound look at public education. Speakers include Bill Gates, Eric Adler, Davis Guggenheim, Geoffrey Canada, and Leslie Chilcott. Paepcke Auditorium, 7:30 pm (Tickets are $20)     July 8   • An Afternoon of Conversation engages big thinkers and doers in serious discussion about their work and the future. Speakers include Bill Gates with Walter Isaacson, Nicholas Kristof, Eric Holder with CBS’s Bob Schieffer, Geoffrey Canada and Roland Fryer on race and school achievement, and Melody Barnes with EJ Dionne. The Benedict Music Tent, 2:00pm (Tickets are $75)   • Jazz Night at the Festival featuring the Helen Sung Trio in performance and conversation with remarks by Dana Gioia. Little Nell, 9:00 pm (Tickets are $20)     July 9   • Game On: What Happens When Pressure is Put On Play featuring Tom Farrey of ESPN. Limelight Lodge, 7:45 am (Tickets are $35)   • Walk in My Shoes: Students from New Orleans and Haiti Rebuild Lives featuring youth who will share their experiences, discuss their stories, and steal your hearts St. Regis Ballroom, 8:30 pm (Tickets are $20)   • Restrepo: A Film featuring producer Sebastian Junger about the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Paepcke Auditorium, 8:00 pm (Tickets are $20)     July 10   • Countdown to Zero: Film Screening and Discussion featuring Valerie Plame Wilson, Dianne Weyermann, Richard Burt, General Jack Sheehan, and moderated by Bruce Blair. Paepcke Auditorium, 8:00 pm (Tickets are $20)   • Comedy Night: The News Has No Clothes featuring Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder. Hotel Jerome Ballroom, 9:30 pm (Tickets are $25)   The full schedule of public events and ticket cost for individual programs will be posted to the Ideas Festival website on June 25.   From July 5 – July 11 in Aspen, Colorado, more than 250 leaders from the fields of arts, science, culture, technology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, and politics — drawn from across the country and from around the world — will speak about “exploring ideas, deepening dialogue, and inspiring action.” Contributing their provocative perspectives, these presenters will engage the festival audience of nearly 2,000, as well as those following the festival online around the world, in a deep and inquisitive public discourse on the most important and exciting ideas and issues facing the world today.   About The Atlantic Since 1857, The Atlantic has played a central role in shaping the national debate on current affairs and cultural trends. Dedicated to bold, independent, diverse, and highly reasoned perspectives, its writers, bloggers, and critics represent the best in American journalism. The Atlantic’s award-winning commentary and coverage can be found in its magazine, on its website at www.theatlantic.com, and at 100+ events a year produced by its industry-leading events division, Atlantic LIVE.     About the Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Aspen Institute does this primarily in four ways: seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs, and public conferences and events. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.   /news.php?year=2010&article=126 ThuAMEDTE_Rthth We all get excited about great ideas, especially when we see them at work. While it is in our nature to think creatively; it is inspiration that propels us to act. What is really important now – in a time when so much needs to be re-worked, re-thought, resolved – is whether some of the great ideas we come up with can really come to life. This year at Aspen Ideas Festival we are posing a number of questions: Can we design for sustainability? Can we apply soft power to some of the more intractable problems we face in other cultures? Could the Constitution “evolve” to reflect society’s changes in the 21st century? Can we see our way to the next economy? Will the US remain a dominant force for prosperity and democracy? Will we turn the corner on education? Could we change the situation for desperately impoverished, abused, or undereducated girls and women across the globe?   Join us to listen, discuss, connect, and act. Through the week of this event, we welcome as many members of the public as our generous host venues can accommodate. We look forward to conversations that spill out onto the streets of Aspen, the communities of the Roaring Fork Valley, and, with the help of the world wide web, to audiences everywhere.   Learn more about the public events at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. Download our public events guide now. /news.php?year=2010&article=120 MonAMEDTE_Rthth 2010 ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL: EXPLORING IDEAS, DEEPENING DIALOGUE, INSPIRING ACTION   Washington, DC, June 7, 2010–– The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic announce their sixth annual celebration of ideas with the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. From July 5 – July 11 in Aspen, Colorado, more than 250 leaders from the fields of arts, science, culture, technology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, and politics — drawn from across the country and from around the world — will speak about “exploring ideas, deepening dialogue, and inspiring action.” Contributing their provocative perspectives, these presenters will engage the festival audience of nearly 2,000, as well as those following the festival online around the world, in a deep and inquisitive public discourse on the most important and exciting ideas and issues facing the world today.   Speakers currently confirmed to attend include: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates; DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg; Twitter Co-Founders Biz Stoneand Evan Williams; United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba; Author John Kao; Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour; National Institute for Play President Stuart Brown; former President of Mexico Vicente Fox; former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; US Attorney General Eric Holder; Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer David Hume Kennerly; Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka; White House Office of Management and Budget Director PeterOrszag; Sir Nigel Crisp; US Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue; Allstate CEO Thomas J. Wilson; Playwright and Actress Anna Deavere Smith; Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele; Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant; WNBA's Washington Mystics Owner Sheila Johnson; Shell President Marvin Odum; and sculptor Guy Dilland author Tobias Wolff, who will also serve as the Institute's 2010 Harman-Eisner Artists-in-Residence.   Alongside leading journalists such as Fred Barnes, Maria Bartiromo, Elisabeth Bumiller, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Clive Crook, E.J. Dionne Jr., James Fallows, Tom Friedman, Jeffrey Goldberg, Sylvie Kauffmann, Katty Kay, Nicholas Kristof, Andrea Mitchell, Peggy Noonan, Kai Ryssdal, David Sanger, Bob Schieffer, Robert Siegel, and Tavis Smiley, presenters will discuss their ideas in plenary sessions, tutorials, and other sessions on program tracks including The Next Economy, Global Health, Design and Sustainability, Women + Girls: Change Agents, Living Digitally, Ideas in Education, The Promise of “Play,” and Latin America: Power, Politics, Potential.   “This year we are excited about some new and unique ways to help spread the Aspen Ideas Festival dialogue around the world, including new iPhone and Android apps. These apps, along with our continued online presence at aifestival.org, will allow us to make more of the Festival available to people across different mediums and around the world, while, at the same time, creating a better Festival experience for our patrons,” said Kitty Boone, vice president of public programs at the Aspen Institute.   The Atlantic will extend the conversation from Aspen to a global audience with a six week-long Ideas Special Report at TheAtlantic.com. Running from June 8 to July 16, the Report will include video from the Aspen Ideas Festival, a daily Today@Aspen slide show, an ongoing Ideas blog, and an Idea of the Day written by a featured Atlantic writer. The Ideas Special Report coincides with July/August Ideas issue of The Atlanticin print and online, focused on “Ideas of the Year.” Additionally, daily video highlights from the Ideas Festival will be posted at www.aifestival.org, and event updates will be featured at www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute, #aif2010 on www.twitter.com, and www.facebook.com/aspeninstitute.   “The Ideas Festival draws together some of the world's more influential and original thinkers to discuss the big questions of our time,” said James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic.   “We're looking forward to the conversations that will emerge from this year's partnership with the Aspen Institute.”   For a list of currently confirmed speakers, program tracks, and passholder information, please visit www.aifestival.org.   With an 80 percent renewal rate from 2009, underwriters for the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival include Allstate, Altria, Applied Materials, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young, HP, Mercedes-Benz USA, Monsanto, Shell, Thomson Reuters, and U.S Trust.   About The Atlantic   Since 1857, The Atlantic has played a central role in shaping the national debate on current affairs and cultural trends.   Dedicated to bold, independent, diverse, and highly reasoned perspectives, its writers, bloggers, and critics represent the best in American journalism.   The Atlantic's award-winning commentary and coverage can be found in its magazine, on its website at www.theatlantic.com, and at 100+ events a year produced by its industry-leading events division, Atlantic LIVE.   About the Aspen Institute   The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Aspen Institute does this primarily in four ways: seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs, and public conferences and events. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org. /news.php?year=2010&article=119 WedAMEDTE_Rthth /news.php?year=2010&article=118 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd What's so important about half of the world's population?  Consider some realities: What do women contribute to corporate financial performance? On average, Fortune 500 companies with more women on their boards of directors turned in better financial performances than those with fewer women. (Ernst & Young, "Groundbreakers: Using the Strength of Women to Rebuild the World Economy," 2009.) What happens when women are employed in the third world? When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families, as compared with only 30 to 40 percent for a man. (Phil Borges, Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World, 2007.) What happens when girls receive an education? A one-percentage-point (ppt) increase in female education raises the average level of GDP by 0.37 ppt and raises annual GDP growth rates by 0.2 ppt on average. (United Nations, "Investing in Women and Girls," 2008.) Despite steady progress, two-thirds of the 759 million adults lacking literacy skills today are women. (UNESCO, "Education for all," 2010.) What happens when women across the globe have little to no access to health resources? Each year, half a million mothers lose their lives in the process of giving birth. Millions more suffer complications that produce lifelong disability. (USAID, "USAID Global Health: Improving Global Health Improves the World," October 2009.)       /news.php?year=2010&article=117 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd Former presidents will discuss political and democratic ideals for the region and examine the profound developments in energy, environment, and education there. The Aspen Ideas Festival extends a warm welcome to President Alejandro Toledo (Peru, 2001-2006); President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil, 1995-2003); President Vicente Fox (Mexico, 2000-2006); President Fernando de la Rua (Argentina, 1999-2001); President Carlos Mesa (Bolivia, 2003-2005); President Hipolito Mejia (Dominican Republic, 2000-2004); President Gustavo Noboa (Ecuador, 2000-2003); President Rodrigo Borja (Ecuador, 1988-1992); President Antonio Saca (El Salvador, 2004-2009); President Vinicio Cerezo (Guatemala, 1986-1991); Vice President Eduardo Stein (Guatemala, 2004-2008); President Ricardo Maduro (Honduras, 2002-2006); and President Nicolas Ardito Barletta (Panama, 1984-1985). /news.php?year=2010&article=116 WedAMEDTE_Rstst While much can change with the final roster of speakers at the Aspen Ideas Festival, we're hoping to whet your appetite with this first list of speakers. This list is the confirmed speakers as of May 6, 2010 Jeffrey Abelson, Writer, Filmmaker, Drawing Fire Eric Adler, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The SEED Foundation Lisa Airan, Aesthetic Dermatologist; Clinical Instructor, Mount Sinai Hospital Yousef Al Otaiba, United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States Nancy Aossey, President and CEO, International Medical Corps Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, PBS’s “NOVA” Donald A. Baer, Worldwide Vice Chairman, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former President of Panama (1984-1985) Fred Barnes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst, The Washington Examiner Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” Seth Berkley, President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Amar Bhide, Visiting Scholar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Deborah Bial, President and Founder, The Posse Foundation David Blood, Senior Partner and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management David Boies, Founder and Managing Partner, Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP Rodrigo Borja, former President of Ecuador (1988-1992) Trevor Born, Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon; Instructor of Cosmetic Surgery Training, University of Toronto Kim Bottomly, President, Wellesley College Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation Lawrence Bridges, Filmmaker, Red Car, Inc. Ruby Bright, Executive Director, Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis Richard Brodhead, President, Duke University Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent, “PBS NewsHour” Stuart Brown, President, National Institute for Play Elisabeth Bumiller, Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, The Harlem Children’s Zone Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil (1995-2003) Kevin Carroll, Founder, The Katalyst Consultancy; Author, Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work /news.php?year=2010&article=115 TueAMEDTE_Rthth The Aspen Ideas Festival isn't the only show in town this summer. Be sure to check out the offerings from our Aspen Security Forum (June 28-30) and Aspen Environment Forum (July 25-28).   To answer critical questions about America's preparedness for terrorism, the Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program, in partnership with The New York Times and GSN: Government Security News, presents the Aspen Security Forum.   Confirmed speakers include: Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, former LA Police Chief William Bratton, and former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. Moderators and interviewers include Jeanne Meserve and Peter Bergen from CNN, Kimberly Dozier from CBS News, Brian Ross from ABC News and Michael Isikoff from Newsweek.   Learn more and get passes to this event at our website www.aspensecurityforum.org.   The theme of the 2010 Aspen Environment Forum is Bridges to Sustainability: People, Planet, Possibility. This year, the forum is designed to provide a critical framework for committed voices to probe the interconnectedness between the human and the natural world as part of the race to find out how we can transition past the challenges facing a sustainable future. The Forum will present discussions on topics including climate change, renewable energy policy, innovation and technology, efficiency, conservation, and more with the goals of raising awareness, stimulating new thinking, building understanding and consensus, and inspiring commitment to action. While the final speaker roster is coming together currently, past speakers have included EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenko, Senator Gary Hart, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, and Her Majesty Queen Noor.   Learn more about the Aspen Environment Forum and register now at www.aspenenvironment.org. /news.php?year=2010&article=114 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Mu Sochua, opposition leader in the Cambodian Parliament and women's rights advocate, was profiled in the New York Times recently. /news.php?year=2010&article=113 TueAMESTE_Rndnd With the theme "Ideas in Action," the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival has announced the program tracks for the event. Five program tracks will span the Festival's entire 7 days: World Affairs, Arts and Culture, The American Agenda, The Environment: Design and Sustainability, and Women+Girls: the Solution.    Four tracks will unfold during the first session of the festival, from July 5-8: Living Digitally, Race in America, The Century of Biology, and Ideas in Education. Spanning the second session of the festival, from July 8-11 are: The Next Economy: Innovation as Catalyst, Global Health, The Promise of "Play," and Latin America: Power, Politics and Potential.   Learn more about the tracks for the 2010 Ideas Festival. /news.php?year=2010&article=112 TueAMESTE_Rrdrd Announcing a new opportunity to engage college students!: We are going to test this summer a new opportunity for parents and their college-age students to attend Ideas Festival together. Parents purchasing a pass to Session One or Session Two may also purchase a discounted pass for a child aged 18 – 22. Why? We think it might be fun to engage with each other around interesting topics. We are also confident that young people will not only derive a lot of benefit and interest from the speakers and presentations here, but will also add a tremendous amount to the quality of discussion across campus. Based on demand, we will also attempt to bring parents and students together in a series of conversations dedicated to them.   A limited number of half-price Festival Passes ($1,225) will be available for a student or young adult to join with a registered family member or friend. For more information or to register for the Student Festival Pass, please call 970-544-7960.   /news.php?year=2010&article=111 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Throughout the history of the Aspen Ideas Festival, we've tackled challenging topics in international affairs, putting tough questions to world leaders and the people who know them best. As in years past, a weeklong track on global issues will be part of the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival (see the 2010 tracks). Two highlights from the 2009 Ideas Festival:   Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour discusses dealing with Iran as a potential nuclear power and examines some strategies for addressing the threat. Earlier in the festival, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman sat down with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to learn about his plans for leading his nation through a turbulent time in the middle east. /news.php?year=2010&article=110 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Tracks have been announced for the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. One will be an expanded discussion of life online -- from media and blogging to the changing ways Americans need information in their lives. A highlight from the 2009 conference was a session which included Jason Calacanis who founded Weblogs Inc, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com. Watch it. Veteran blogger Andrew Sullivan also spoke at the 2009 Ideas Festival, talking frankly about why he blogs. The answer kicked off a rich conversation. /news.php?year=2010&article=109 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Registration is now open for the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. REGISTER NOW.   Having trouble registering? Download this form and register by fax.   Members of the Aspen Institute Society of Fellows can purchase passes one week earlier. If you are a member of the Society of Fellows but haven't received information on registering during the week of October 26, 2009, please contact Deborah Murphy at deborah.murphy@aspeninstitute.org.   Learn about opportunities for Student Passes. Are you a member of the press? Media interested in obtaining a press pass can apply here or contact Jennifer Myers.   /news.php?year=2009&article=108 WedAMEDTE_Rrdrd Registration opens for the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival Monday, November 2. Members of the Aspen Institute Society of Fellows can purchase passes one week earlier. Stay tuned for more details. /news.php?year=2009&article=107 SunAMEDTE_Rthth Aspen is emerging as the American Davos... absent the stultifying earnestness of the Alpine gabfest. While sometimes you look around a room (or a big tent) and it seems like all the people speaking are people you know from Washington continuing a conversation they were having hours before in the breakfast restaurant at the Hay Adams Hotel, the crowd is smart, unafraid to ask tough questions and the overall air really does seem to involve the search for ideas. Read David Rothkopf's blog at ForeignPolicy.com. /news.php?year=2009&article=106 SunAMEDTE_Rthth President Barack Obama did not appear at this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, but his policies and leadership style were ever-present there. The week-long festival included public remarks from senior members of his administration as well as commentary from the media folk charged with covering them. Read the full story in the Aspen Daily News. /news.php?year=2009&article=105 SunAMEDTE_Rthth Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Saturday that Jews would enjoy freedom and civil rights in a future Palestinian state. Read full story in the Aspen Daily News. /news.php?year=2009&article=104 SatAMEDTE_Rthth Sarah Palin’s unexpected announcement that she will resign as Alaska’s governor at the end of this month left political experts scratching their heads — and one likely Republican presidential candidate cornered — at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival on Friday afternoon. Read full story in the Aspen Daily News. /news.php?year=2009&article=103 SatAMEDTE_Rthth Featured Video: Madeleine Albright, James Baker, and James Steinberg discuss world affairs with Charlie Rose. http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=518&action=full_info   Harvard University’s Niall Ferguson and The Atlantic’s James Fallows debate the influence of China on the U.S. economy. http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=510&action=full_info   Quotes: “The Republican Party needs to be more optimistic, positive, and hopeful. Nobody wants to follow cranks.” —Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty “The worst thing you can do to support the forces of openness, the freedom of expression, and a more tolerant society in Iran is to make it look like it was made in Washington or London.”—Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg “The biggest struggles in life are not between good and evil, but between two goods.” Paul van Zyl, co-founder and executive vice-president of the International Center for Transitional Justice “The world recession seems to have affected everybody except Broadway in New York.”—playwright David Ives “I don’t go into the yearning. I take things as they come to me. And that’s a better way to be.” —architect Frank Gehry “I think we’re overly obsessed about lawsuits. What’s the number-one predictor of lawsuits? Lack of relationships with the patients.”—Ezekiel Emanuel, special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and head of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health “If you don’t grow the economy, you can’t solve any of the country’s social problems.” —John Hennessy, president and Bing Presidential Professor at Stanford University “I don’t feel like fiction really needs to defend itself.” —author Curtis Sittenfeld Today’s Highlights: *all times are MDT 7:45 am – The Changing Media Landscape in the Middle East Hisham Melhem, Jeffrey Goldberg 9:00 am – In Conversation with Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan, Walter Isaacson (moderator) 10:30 am – Creating Stakeholders for Peace and Civil Society: The Future of Palestine Salam Fayyad, Dianne Feinstein, Madeleine Albright, William Mayer, James Bennet (moderator) 10:30 am – Beyond NCLB: The Future of Education Margaret Spellings, Michael Lomax, Byron Auguste (moderator) 12:00 pm – Ambassador Imad Moustapha in Conversation Ambassador Imad Moustapha, James Bennet (interviewer) 2:30 pm – How Do We Engage Iran? Karim Sadjadpour, Christopher Isham (moderator) 2:30 pm – What’s the Brain Got to Do with It? Harold Koplewicz, Patricia Kuhl, Andrew Meltzoff, William Haseltine 4:00 pm – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Conversation Salam Fayyad, Tom Friedman (interviewer) 9:15 pm – America and the World Ambassador Imad Moustapha, Ambassador Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Steven Redisch (moderator)   The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: James Fallows on his discussion with Niall Ferguson http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/fallows_v_ferguson_at_aspen.php   Aspen Online:   The Atlantic Ideas Special Report:http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340   *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.*   For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please contact: Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202.286.1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=102 SatAMEDTE_Rthth Patricia Kuhl on Ethan Zuckerman: “I’d like to study his brain.”   “The essence of games is agency.”—Will Wright   “Many of our citizens do not understand the federal investment into science and research.” —John Hennessy   “Evolution has made human beings into very complex beings. There’s no intelligent designer, because we are far more complex than anything any intelligent designer would have laid out.” —John Hennessy   “The idea that the US will be dominant in all fields of science and technology is not something we can aspire to any longer.” —John Hennessy   “We need to invest in community colleges. Not everybody belongs in a four-year school. Not everybody belongs in a research university.” —John Hennessy   “Double the salaries of math and science teachers. … Make it a competitive job opportunity.” —John Hennessy   “We’ve got to get away from ‘teach to the geek.’ … There’s a tremendous temptation to commit to that really elite group.” —John Hennessy   “If you don’t grow the economy, you cant solve any of the country’s social problems.” —John Hennessy   “Anyone who quotes Abraham Lincoln as often as Obama does is OK in my book.” —John Hennessy   “It’s delightful to have someone of [Steven Chu’s] scientific ability running the Energy Department.” —John Hennessy   “For my PhD, I switched to computer science and then, all of a sudden, that way of thinking matched up with the way my brain works.” —John Hennessy   Advice to the president: “Fix it.” —John Hennessy   “Put a price on carbon. That’s the right solution.” —John Hennessy   “Corn-based ethanol is a disaster.” —John Hennessy   “We need to get away from this crazy adulation of sports stars and rock stars and get back to people who do real art.” —John Hennessy   “I think a lot about how people live who aren’t like me, and that’s the fundamental thought of a novelist.”—Curtis Sittenfeld   “I don’t feel like fiction really needs to defend itself.” —Curtis Sittenfeld   “The biggest thing I learned [about writing] was to think about structure in terms of writing, which is totally unromantic.” —Curtis Sittenfeld   “When you’re writing fiction you sort of want to cut yourself off and retreat into the caves of your mind.” —Curtis Sittenfeld   “The worst thing you can do to support the forces of openness, the freedom of expression, and a more tolerant society in Iran is to make it look like it was made in Washington or London.”—James Steinber   “Why don’t we rape the rapist? We don’t do that, most people say we shouldn’t do that, most people say there are things that some people might deserve, but that we don’t do.”—Carol Steiker   “As long as the United States does have a death penalty, there are ways to do it right and, until there is an abolition, we need to concentrate on fixing the errors that exist.”—Marsha Goodenow   “We have the best technology, the best medicine, the best science, but we are really, really not taking care of the human spirit.”—Tina Staley   “Design does the human side of research.”—Gerard Kleisterlee   “When technology takes center stage, we almost always lose the patient.”—Ezekiel Emanuel   “Incentivize the doctor to do right by the patient.” —Gerard Kleisterlee   “Only in medicine has technology driven up health care costs.”—Ezekiel Emanuel   “I think we’re overly obsessed about lawsuits. What’s the number-one predictor of lawsuits? Lack of relationships with the patients.”—Ezekiel Emanuel   “We buy a blender, we get a 100-page manual. Why is it that, when we get cancer, we have to figure it out for ourselves?”—Tina Staley   “Unfortunately, most people who become [medical] school deans don’t get there by being innovators.”—Ezekiel Emanuel   “The biggest struggles in life are not between good and evil, but between two goods.” —Paul van Zyl   “Regardless of whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or Green, there’s a certain amount of human frailty. All of us should be hesitant to be self-righteous.”—Tim Pawlenty   “I tend to be more in the McCain camp than in the nuanced camp.”—Tim Pawlenty   “The Republican Party needs to be more optimistic, positive, and hopeful. Nobody wants to follow cranks.” —Tim Pawlenty   “The Republican Party on the whole will remain a conservative party. But we need to do a better job of explaining why those values matter.” —Tim Pawlenty   “When you’ve got Hillary Clinton on rhetorical bended knee begging China to pay for our debt, that should tell you something.” —Tim Pawlenty   “When you watch cable news shows, you don’t need the voice and the message of the Republican Party to come from some ticked off guy.” —Tim Pawlenty   “What the marketplace is telling Republicans around the country is we prefer the products and services of your competitors.”   “The world recession seems to have affected everybody except Broadway in New York.”—David Ives   “There are other media seeing the curtain come down on them before the theater.”—David Ives   “Virtually every art form is decreasing—except the musical.”—Dana Gioia   “Along with jazz, the martini, and the airplane, the musical is a classic American art form.”—David Ives   “I’m a big believer in story. I believe in a beginning, a middle, and an end.”—Michael Eisner   “I didn’t want to design rich guys’ houses—I thought.” —Frank Gehry   “I was fascinated with raw buildings, fascinated with Rauschenberg, Judd, Andre, with people who were making art—high art—with junk. … I called it ‘Cheapskate Architecture.’” —Frank Gehry   “I knew how musicians felt about concert halls. I knew how conductors felt about concert halls. I knew they could walk in and read it aurally. … They can’t grow as an orchestra unless they can hear each other. … They have to feel good on stage. …The musicians hear better, they play better if they like the room; the audience responds better, the orchestra plays better, they feel better. You have to make a nice room. Forget the exterior, you have to start with the interior.” —Frank Gehry   “Psychologically, people feel better in a concert hall when there’s wood—because of the violins, the cellos.” —Frank Gehry   “There’s a box and, on either side of the box, there’s toilets and stairs. That’s the plan.” —Frank Gehry   “I wanted to use stone because you go to a concert hall at night, and, at night, stone is ambient and warm.” —Frank Gehry   “I don’t go into the yearning. I take things as they come to me. And that’s a better way to be.” —Frank Gehry   “I respond to the client intuitively. And that must be scary and a little mysterious from the other side. … But if they can get over that and play with it, it can be fun.” —Frank Gehry /news.php?year=2009&article=101 FriAMEDTE_Rrdrd Featured Video:   The brand-new Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren speaks with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg about the Middle East and the future of Israel. http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=515&action=full_info News business veterans explore and debate the latest thinking and explain where they see the most hope for the business. http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=505&action=full_info Comedian Lewis Black discusses his book, Me of Little Faith, in a colorful conversation with Bob Schieffer of CBS's “Face the Nation.” http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=516&action=full_info   Quotes:   “We want to create a situation where we never have to take anyone—an Arab or a Jew—out of their home again. And that is a monumental task.”—Israeli Ambassador to the United Sates Michael B. Oren “Every day in my courtroom I see every type of person that exists, every race, every religion, every color, every point of view. We have 300 million people in this country and 600 million points of view. And they have all decided to solve their differences under law. And, however wrong a decision, it is still a tremendous treasure for the country because the alternative is worse.”—Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer “The world is only changed by people naïve enough to think they can change the world.”—Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute and a principal leader of the Human Genome Project “Most people in the world own things—but they don’t own them legally.”—Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy “Arts is evolution.”—Damian Woetzel, director of the Vail International Dance Festival, former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, and 2008 Aspen Institute Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence “I think you need to talk to your enemies, not your friends. You’re not trying to make peace with your friends.”—Former Secretary of State James Baker   Today’s Highlights: *all times are MDT 7:45 am – Navigating the Global Economy: Leaders Discuss Shephard Hill, Gerard Kleisterlee, David Rubenstein, Lionel Barber (moderator) 7:45 am – Transatlantic Relations Ambassador Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald 9:00 am – Partnering Our Way To Sustainability Peter Seligmann, Rob Walton 10:30 am – How To Get Teachers Into Every Classroom: What Works? John Deasy, Randi Weingarten, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Matt Miller (moderator) 10:30 am – Developing a Sustainable Economy in the Middle East Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador Aziz Mekouar, Shephard Hill, Donald Pressley (moderator) 12:00 pm – Tim Pawlenty in Conversation Governor Tim Pawlenty 1:15 pm – Immigration Reform Alan Greenspan, David Kennedy, Alexander Aleinikoff, Jack Maher (moderator) 2:30 pm – Is the Curtain Closing on Live Theatre in America? David Ives, Anna Deavere Smith, Michael Eisner, Dana Gioia (moderator) 2:30 pm – The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power David Sanger, Andrea Mitchell 4:00 pm – Celebrate the Beat!: Creating Good Students, Good Citizens Damian Woetzel, Tracy Strauss plus approximately 15 kids 4:00 pm – Opportunities and Responsibilities of an Urban University Robert Zimmer, Eli Broad 5:00 pm – In Conversation with Frank Gehry Frank Gehry, Tom Pritzker (moderator) 9:30 pm – Sierra Leone Child Warrior Writes a No. 1 Best-Seller, A Long Way Home Ishmael Beah Later This Week: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Conversation (July 4) Salam Fayyad, Tom Friedman (interviewer) Alan Greenspan in Conversation (July 4) Alan Greenspan, Walter Isaacson (interviewer) Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha in Conversation (July 4) Imad Moustapha, James Bennet (interviewer) The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: James Fallows on climate change jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/semi-encouraging_climate-chang.php Aspen Online: The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340   *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.*   For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please contact: Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202.286.1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=100 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd I haven't gotten to attend many panels this year, because I've been on too many. But of the ones I have gone to, the Austan Goolsbee Q&A is by far the liveliest. People who attend Aspen are very successful, and the questions he's being asked hit close to home for them: marginal income tax rates, taxation of worldwide corporate profits, H1B visas for foreign graduate students educated in America. Read complete article in The Atlantic.   /news.php?year=2009&article=99 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd ASPEN — Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said in Aspen Wednesday that the court would benefit from the addition of a second female justice. Read complete article in The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. /news.php?year=2009&article=98 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd At the Aspen Ideas Festival on Wednesday Secretary Arne Duncan was under the spotlight on his plans to revamp the education system in America. With $100B in play there is a lot of opportunity to encourage and support innovative educational reform and there was no denying his passion and eloquence in speaking about pushing the entire system back to being one of the best in the world. Read complete article in The Huffington Post. /news.php?year=2009&article=97 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice shot back at critics of the Obama administration’s responses to the current unrest in Honduras and Iran on Wednesday in a public interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Read complete article in the Aspen Daily News. /news.php?year=2009&article=96 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd t the Aspen Ideas Festival, I got up to a mic to ask Eric Schmidt a question. No, it wasn’t, “what would Google do?” I wanted his reaction to a notion I’ve talked about here that has crystallized since I wrote the book: that we are going through something more than a financial crisis and more profound and permanent than a recession. We are shifting from the industrial era – and the age of mass production, distribution, marketing, and media – to what follows, a society built on knowledge and abundance. We are seeing the collapse of the auto, banking, and newspaper industries and large swaths of the the rest of media, retail, real estate, and others to follow. We’re not going to go back; the change is bigger and more fundamental than that. “Did I go too far?” I asked. Read complete article on seekingalpha.com. /news.php?year=2009&article=95 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd Featured Video: United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks with The Atlantic’s editor James Bennet http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=507&action=full_info White House Economic Advisor Austan Goolsbee sits down with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo to discuss the President's economic recovery plan http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=506&action=full_info US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talks with Bob Schieffer of CBS's Face the Nation http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=509&action=full_info Quotes: “If I was a beer I’d be a Negro light; I’m a third less angry than a regular Negro.”— The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore “Children don’t need Michael Jordan as a role model. They need someone who lives three blocks away and has been through all the same problems.” — Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman “If I had not had art and music several days a week, I would not have stayed in school. If I hadn’t gone to Yale, I would have gone to jail.”— Painter and photographer Chuck Close “There’s one economy that you need to know and that is China plus America and it equals Chimerica.”—Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School "Branding is a dangerous course...Generally people follow content and relying on brands leads you to do lazy work"—Michael Eisner, founder of The Tornante Company and former CEO of The Walt Disney Company Today’s Highlights: *all times are MDT 7:45 am – Reset: How This Economic Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America Nancy Gibbs, Kurt Andersen 9:00 am – Global Counterinsurgency Mike McConnell, Michael Chertoff, General Jack Keane, Jane Harman, Fred Kaplan (moderator) 9:00 am – Historian and Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren In Conversation Michael Oren, Jeffrey Goldberg (interviewer) 10:30 am – High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What We Can Do About It Joseph Califano, Scott Stossel (interviewer) 12:00 pm – Me of Little Faith Lewis Black, Bob Schieffer (moderator) 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm – An Afternoon of Conversation Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, Secretary Madeleine Albright, poet Elizabeth Alexander, Secretary James Baker, Justice Stephen Breyer, economist Hernando de Soto, biologist Eric Lander, Professor Charles Ogletree, Charlie Rose, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Schieffer, playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith, dancer Damian Woetzel, and others 9:30 pm – The News Has No Clothes Presented by Comedy Arts Studios; in partnership with The Onion Hosts: Lewis Black, Larry Wilmore, DL Hughley, Dana Perino Later This Week: In Conversation: Gov. Tim Pawlenty (July 3) Tim Pawlenty, Adrian Wooldridge (interviewer) Europe, America, and Our Transatlantic Alliance (July 3) Ambassador Klaus Schiaroth, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Adrian Wooldridge (moderator) In Conversation: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (July 4) Salam Fayyad In Conversation: Alan Greenspan (July 4) Alan Greenspan, Walter Isaacson (interviewer) In Conversation: Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha (July 4) Imad Moustapha, James Bennet (interviewer) The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: Megan McArdle on Austan Goolsbee http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/aspen_bulletin_austan_goolsbee.php Ideas Extravaganza: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/2009/07/ideas_extravaganza.php Aspen Online: The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340 *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.* For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please contact: Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202.286.1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=94 ThuAMEDTE_Rndnd Doug Schoen's Poll on American Expectations from the Obama Administration View more documents from aspeninstitute. /news.php?year=2009&article=93 WedAMEDTE_Rstst Featured Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about media, the economy, and the Internet heavyweight he runs: http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=500&action=full_info Quotes: “Without pornography, we wouldn’t have the Internet.” — The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan “People always ask me what an economist does in Washington, and the answer is: We kill bad ideas. And there is no more fertile ground for bad ideas than a presidential campaign.” — DHE Consulting LLC President and former McCain campaign advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin “For every program in the government, there is a group that will watch them and keep them honest. And that’s one of the great things about governance in the Internet age.” — Google CEO Eric Schmidt “We’ve got a problem now that has nothing to do with race or class or gender. It’s these tweeting, blogging, ‘I’m gonna do my own research’ jurors!” — Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and founding executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice  Today’s Highlights: *all times are MDT 7:45 am – The Founding Fathers of Blogging Discuss the End of Media Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, Jeff Jarvis (moderator) 9:00 am – In Conversation with Austan Goolsbee Austan Goolsbee, Maria Bartiromo (interviewer) 9:00 am – The Cradle to Prison Pipeline Marian Wright Edelman, Charles Ogletree (interviewer) 10:30 am – Avoiding the Next Crisis: Getting Financial Regulation Right Beth Brooke, Thomas Wilson, Peter J. Wallison, Roger Ferguson, Dean Baker, Robert K. Steel, Clive Crook (interviewer) 10:30 am – The State of Science Literacy Sean Carroll, Robert Socolow, William Haseltine, David Mindell, Paula Apsell, Jean-Lou Chameau, Walter Isaacson (moderator) 10:30 am – How Do Americans Rate the New Administration: A Comprehensive Poll on Politics, Policy, and Americans’ Attitudes on the Issues (exclusive poll for Aspen Ideas Festival) Douglas Schoen 12:00 pm – Race and Humor Larry Wilmore, Ta-Nehisi Coates (moderator) 12:00 pm – Markets and Morals Michael Sandel 1:15 pm – In Conversation with Susan Rice Susan Rice, James Bennet (interviewer) 1:15 pm – In Conversation with Chuck Close Chuck Close, Anna Deavere Smith (interviewer) 2:30 pm – The American Dream – Revisited Anne Mosle, Linda Wertheimer, Tom Wilson, Richard Wilhelm (moderator) 2:30 pm –The Plight of the American Automobile Industry Paul Ingrassia, Csaba Csere, Vijay Vaitheeswaran 5:00 pm – US Secretary Arne Duncan in Conversation Arne Duncan, Bob Schieffer (interviewer) 5:00 pm – Tweeting The Revolution: Will Social Networking and Journalism Drive Democracy Mark Whitaker, Andrew Sullivan, Jeffrey Goldberg (interviewer) 7:30 pm – Will Obamanomics Work? Steven Adler, Megan McArdle, David Wessel, Clive Crook (moderator) 8:30 pm – Ten9Eight: Film and Discussion Mary Mazzio, Amy Rosen, Rodney Walker, Steven Brill, and special taped introduction by US Secretary Arne Duncan The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: Bob Cohn on the criminal justice system: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/2009/06/those_tweeting_jurors.php James Fallows breaks down the most original ideas that emerged from the Festival’s opening session: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/ideas_festival_kickoff_opening.php http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/two_factlets_from_aspen_day_2.php Aspen Online: The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340 *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.* For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please contact:   Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202.286.1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=92 WedAMEDTE_Rstst After 12+ hours of talking, listening, interviewing, note-taking, absorbing, and finally movie-watching, I have two containable bits of info from this day's activities at the Ideas Festival. Read full story in the Atlantic. /news.php?year=2009&article=91 WedAMEDTE_Rstst When Kai Rysdall, the host of the public radio program “Marketplace,” introduced the CEO of Google on Tuesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he did so by saying, “Eric Schmidt is the leader of arguably one of the most powerful and well known companies on the planet.”  Read complete article in the Aspen Daily News.   /news.php?year=2009&article=90 WedAMEDTE_Rstst “We’ve got a problem now that has nothing to do with race or class or gender. It’s these tweeting, blogging, ‘I’m gonna do my own research’ jurors!”—Charles Ogletree   “It is important that we go beyond the justice that is executed … and be an advocate for the victim and a soft place for them to fall.”—TD Jakes   “There are a lot of great things about the justice system. But the list of bad things is longer.”—Charles Ogletree   “Not everyone who commits a crime using drugs—or even selling drugs—needs to be punished for life.”—Charles Ogletree   “We’ve started the Texas Offenders Reentry Initiative, because people can’t get a job, can’t rent an apartment, in many states they can’t vote, they have no options—and yet we say he has paid his debt to society.”—TD Jakes   “I’d like to see a jurisdiction, which pays both for public prosecutors and pays the bill for public defenders—have those people change roles every few years!”—Sandra Day O'Connor   “Get the mayors involved with the public-corrections officials six months before a prisoner is released. … Its not them and us. It’s our community. Like it or not they’re coming back!”—Charles Ogletree   “We need to have mandatory HIV testing before prisoners are released. … They don’t know if they are positive when they leave prison, and they are shooting people with a gun every time they have sex.”—TD Jakes   “Punish the serious gang members, but those who are not in that category should be rehabilitated in a meaningful way. … Recognize the difference between gang-bangers and a kid.”—Charles Ogletree   On More and More Women in Prison: “Women can do all kinds of things, and I think they can commit crimes too. And if they do, I guess its good they get caught!”—Sandra Day O'Connor   "Every body should be tested for HIV and AIDs. Why? Because it eliminates the stigma if everyone has to do it. The more we make this a routine medical check up, the better.”—Charles Ogletree /news.php?year=2009&article=89 TueAMEDTE_Rthth Along with several other members of the Atlantic staff, I am at Aspen this week for the fifth annual "Ideas Festival." If past practice is a model, the contents of most of these sessions will eventually appear in one form or another online. But as in past years, we'll try to provide slightly-longer-than-Twitter-scale real time summaries of what is going on. /news.php?year=2009&article=88 TueAMEDTE_Rthth “Given this vast blank existential canvas of which I am to inscribe purpose, I thought I'd be uneventful.” --David Bradley   "When you think of sheer zest and happiness in life, it is almost always the pages of The Atlantic you think of.” --David Bradley   “Remember the 1990s, when the mere mention of Dan Quayle brought mirth and joy to the conversation? … Like a fine wine, Dan Quayle has no shelf life.” --David Bradley   “I thought I could teach you, in my remaining minutes, everything that Harvard knows about happiness.” --David Bradley   "We are the greatest explorers among all Earth's species."--Sean Carroll   “In the Soviet Union, everything was big. Ideas were big. Machinery was big.”--Marina Pisklakova   "Big ideas start with small ideas and take dedication and commitment."--Marina Pisklakova   “The challenge is fitting on the Earth. ... Let's talk about individuals, not countries. It’s called cosmopolitan justice. It's called planetary identity. I hope it's an idea that can work.”--Robert Socolow   "We need to adopt the health and well-being of our children as the measure of our society." --Marian Wright Edelman   “You can tell by my objectively striped tie that I am a Republican.”--Rep. Paul Ryan   “My big idea is that America will come to grips with this fiscal crisis. ... My plan is called a Roadmap for America’s Future. … There’s one group that will lead us to doing this, and that one group of people are bond traders.”--Rep. Paul Ryan   “Ive been thinking about the great media crack up. ... And the idea that works is public broadcasting. … And the idea that doesn’t work is public broadcasting. ... We have to build something new online in the space between television and radio."--David Fanning   "Let's all come back next year better educated.”--Sandra Day O'Connor   "Go to a tweetorial and twitter your way through the Aspen Ideas Festival."--Kitty Boone   "The temperature of the planet is telling us something is wrong. ... What are our options? Mitigation, adaptation, and suffering."--John Holdren   "It's a huge opportunity to have a president who both gets it and can explain it."--John Holdren /news.php?year=2009&article=87 TueAMEDTE_Rthth Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Why the Court Needs More Women (The Daily Beast, June 29, 2009) /news.php?year=2009&article=86 TueAMEDTE_Rthth Featured Video: Aspen Institute CEO and President Walter Isaacson and Atlantic Media Group Owner David Bradley welcome participants and speakers to the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=496&action=full_info Quotes from the Festival: "I'm Sandy O'Connor. I'm just an unemployed cowgirl."—Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor "It is a privilege and a huge opportunity to have a President who both gets it and wants to do something about it." — John Holdren, Assistant to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology "When a small idea reflects and changes the lives of real people, it becomes a big idea." —Marina Pisklakova , Founder of Center ANNA "Is there anything still unknown comparable to the mystery of the origin of the species?" —Sean Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Public broadcasting has always been at war with itself. I don't need to tell you about Yanni at the Acropolis." —David Fanning, executive producer, Frontline Today’s Highlights: *all times are MDT 9:45 am – What is and What Isn’t, Just About the American Criminal Justice System? TD Jakes, Sandra Day O’Connor, Charles Ogletree, Linda Wertheimer (moderator) 10:30 am – Healthcare Reform and the US Economy Jason Grumet, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Len Nichols, Diana DeGette, Jonathan Cohn (moderator) 10:30 am  – A Greenprint for Obama: Critical Paths for an Optimal High-Energy / Low-Carbon Future Marvin Odum, S. Julio Friedmann, Leena Srivastava, Robert Socolow 12:00 pm – Why I Blog Andrew Sullivan, Ta-Nehisi Coates (interviewer) 1:15 pm– Google Looks at the Economy Eric Schmidt, Kai Rysdall (interviewer) 2:30 pm – What’s Next for the High End of the Market? Steve Cannon, Sally Singer, Lynda Resnick (moderator) 4:00 pm – I Live Here: A Conversation with Mia Kirshner Mia Kirshner, Jerry Murdock 5:00 pm – In Conversation with Marvin Odum Marvin Odum, Tom Lovejoy, Steven Adler (moderator) 8:00pm – What’s the News Worth to You? David Westin, Katharine Weymouth, Norman Pearlstine, Josh Tyrangiel, Steven Brill, Walter Isaacson (moderator) 8:00pm – Obama and the Challenge of Expectations: A Look at the First Six Months David Brooks, Margaret Carlson, Linda Wertheimer, Fred Wertheimer, Charles Ogletree, Ron Brownstein (moderator) The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: James Fallows dips his toe back into the online pool http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/toe_back_into_the_online_pool.php Aspen Online: The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09 Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340 *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.* For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please contact: Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202-286-1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=85 TueAMEDTE_Rthth The 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival opened Monday night with a smattering of ambitious, dissonant and indeed “big” ideas. Read more /news.php?year=2009&article=84 MonAMEDTE_Rthth Featured Video: Featured footage from the Aspen Ideas Festival will be available at: http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php Upcoming Highlights This Week: Google CEO Eric Schmidt and American Public Media's “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal discuss the economy In conversation throughout the week: Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, poet Elizabeth Alexander, artist Chuck Close, and others Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in conversation with Harvard Law School’s Charles Ogletree United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice in conversation with The Atlantic’s James Bennet Aspen Institute’s  Walter Isaacson, ABC News’ David Westin, The Washington Post’s Katharine Weymouth, Bloomberg’s Norman Pearlstine, Time’s Josh Tyrangiel, Journalism Online’s Steven Brill discuss the worth of news Chief economist of the president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board Austan Goolsbee in conversation with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan in conversation with the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson Theatrical performance and discussion of SEVEN, agroundbreaking documentary that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world with an introduction by Congresswoman Jane Harman Ernst & Young’s Beth Brooke, Allstate’s Thomas Wilson, American Enterprise Institute’s Peter J. Wallison, TIAA-CREF’s Roger Ferguson, Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Dean Baker, Aspen Institute’s Robert K. Steel in a roundtable discussion on getting financial regulation right to avoid the next crisis, moderated by The Atlantic’s Clive Crook  Shell’s Marvin Odum and The Heinz Center Thomas Lovejoy in conversation with BusinessWeek’s Stephen Adler Aspen Ideas Festival Online: The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/ Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340 *Editors note: Images from the Aspen Ideas Festival are available upon request.* For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival or to request images, please contact: Abby Berman The Rosen Group 646.695.7043 abby@rosengrouppr.com Jennifer Myers The Aspen Institute 202-286-1680 jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org /news.php?year=2009&article=83 SunAMEDTE_Rthth Parking and Transportation   There is very limited parking available at the Aspen Institute campus during Ideas Festival. We strongly recommend that attendees use our shuttle system or the excellent mass transit available in the city of Aspen. Download a complete guide to transportation at the Ideas Festival to make sure you can get in and out of events quickly.   Aspen Ideas Festival Registration   For Session 1 (June 29 – July 2) participants and patrons, on-site registration will begin at 9am and end at 5pm (mountain time) on Monday, June 29, in the Paepcke lobby, 1000 North Third Street. You will NOT be able to pick up your Festival packets before these times.   For Session 2 (July 2 – 5) participants, on-site registration will begin at 10am and end at 2pm (mountain time) on Thursday, July 2, in the Paepcke lobby, 1000 North Third Street. Programming will commence at 2pm. You will NOT be able to pick up your Festival packets before these times.   If you were unable to register for ticketed events in advance, please visit our Ticketing Gallery in Paepcke. It will be open daily from 9am - 5pm beginning June 29. /news.php?year=2009&article=82 WedAMEDTE_Rthth We're pleased to host during the Aspen Ideas Festival the premier of "Ten9Eight," a documentary following a group of children who defied the circumstances of their youth to step up in a national business competition for young people. Directed by Mary Mazzio, the film will be released this fall. Learn more at www.ten9eight.com.   /news.php?year=2009&article=81 TueAMEDTE_Rrdrd Washington, DC, June 23, 2009–– At the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic welcome today’s edgiest and most eminent critics, artists, administrators and patrons to the Arts and Culture programming track. They will offer fresh and dynamic perspectives on the status of the arts in the face of unprecedented economic, social and technological changes.   Highlights: - Chuck Close, artist, photographer, and 2009 Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence, will discuss his life’s work and the creative process in an exclusive interview with Anna Deavere Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Nominated playwright and actress on July 1 - Frank Gehry, world-famous architect, in an interview on July 3 with Tom Pritzker, chairman, Hyatt Foundation – sponsor the Pritzker Architecture Prize - “Is the Curtain Closing on Live Theater in America?”—a July 3 roundtable discussion with Michael Eisner, founder, The Tornante Company; former chairman and CEO, the Walt Disney Company; trustee, the Aspen Institute, David Ives, playwright, All in the Timing: Six One-Act Comedies, Anna Deavere Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Nominated playwright and actress; professor, New York University; trustee, The Aspen Institute, and moderated by Dana Gioia, director, Harman-Eisner Program in the Arts, the Aspen Institute; former chairman, National Endowment for the Arts - Seven--a groundbreaking documentary theatrical performance about seven women from the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network, followed by playwright Anna Deavere Smith in conversation with two of the real women whose experiences are featured in the play: Marina Pisklakova and Mu Sochua on June 29 - “Weathering the Storm: How Will the Arts Make It Through the Economic Crisis?”—a July 4 roundtable discussion with Deborah Borda, President and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Leonard Lauder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.; Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute, Laveen Naidu, Executive Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Damian Woetzel, Director, Vail International Dance Festival; former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet, and moderated by Dana Gioia, director, Harman-Eisner Program in the Arts, the Aspen Institute; former chairman, National Endowment for the Arts - Daily highlights from the Ideas Festival will be posted at www.aifestival.org and the Ideas Special Report at TheAtlantic.com, and event updates will be featured at www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute and www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340.   “What’s exciting about the Aspen Ideas Festival is the convening of truly remarkable minds across so many disciplines,” said Kitty Boone, Vice President, Public Programs at the Aspen Institute. “This year in particular we are pleased to have so many bright thinkers who are leading the way forward for a thriving arts community in America. We will be presenting speakers from various fields of art including, painters, photographers, dancers, musicians, and architects, as well as leaders from arts foundations around the country.”   “The Ideas Festival provides a great forum for the latest thinking about our rapidly-changing political, economic, and cultural landscape, and for debate about how to turn that thinking into action,” said James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic. “We’re thrilled to tap the shared strengths of the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic to help shape the week’s conversation.” Times and dates for programs are subject to change. For a list of other currently confirmed speakers, program tracks, and press pass information, please visit www.aifestival.org or contact Jennifer Myers at jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org. A satellite truck will be on campus; please contact Jennifer Myers prior to arrival to discuss any possible use of the truck. Sponsors for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival include Altria, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young, Philips, Shell, and Thomson Reuters. /news.php?year=2009&article=80 MonAMEDTE_Rndnd Washington, DC, June 22, 2009–– At the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic are pleased to welcome education experts to discuss solutions to today’s most pressing issues in the programming track Innovations in Education.   Highlights: - Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education will appear in an exclusive interview on July 1 - Michelle Rhee, DC public schools chancellor, discusses recreating the inner-city education system in America in an interview on July 5 with Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation - “Motivating Kids for College and Careers” – a July 3 discussion with Hillary Pennington director, US Special Initiatives at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Larry Rosenstock, CEO, High Tech High Learning, Peter Edelman, co-director, Joint Degree in Law and Public Policy program and faculty director, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center and Karen Pittman, co-founder and executive director, The Forum for Youth Investment, moderated by Gary Huggins, director, Commission on No Child Left Behind - “How to Get Great Teachers into Every Classroom”—a July 3 roundtable discussion with Tim Pawlenty, Governor, Minnesota, Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, John Deasy, deputy director of education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and moderated by Matt Miller, senior fellow, Center for American Progress; host, NPR’s "Left, Right & Center" - “Celebrate the Beat: Creating Good Students, Good Citizens”— a July 3 special event featuring Damian Woetzel, director, Vail International Dance Festival; former principal dancer, New York City Ballet and Tracy Straus, director, Celebrate the Beat   Daily highlights from the Ideas Festival will be posted at www.aifestival.org and the Ideas Special Report at TheAtlantic.com, and event updates will be featured at www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute and www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340.   “What’s exciting about the Aspen Ideas Festival is the convening of truly remarkable minds across so many disciplines,” said Kitty Boone, Vice President, Public Programs at the Aspen Institute. “This year in particular we are pleased to have so many bright thinkers who are leading the way forward in American education reform. We will be presenting speakers not just from the Obama Administration, but from differing political perspectives as well as members of the media, other countries, foundations, and varying education fields such as science and the arts.”   “The Ideas Festival provides a great forum for the latest thinking about our rapidly-changing political, economic, and cultural landscape, and for debate about how to turn that thinking into action,” said James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic. “We’re thrilled to tap the shared strengths of the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic to help shape the week’s conversation.” Times and dates for programs are subject to change. For a list of other currently confirmed speakers, program tracks, and press pass information, please visit www.aifestival.org or contact Jennifer Myers at jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org. A satellite truck will be on campus; please contact Jennifer Myers prior to arrival to discuss any possible use of the truck. Sponsors for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival include Altria, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young, Philips, Shell, and Thomson Reuters.   ###