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  1. Meyer covered Central Europe for Newsweek & is now UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-Moon's communication's chief. His book looks at the year the Wall fell.
  2. Ratnesar is Time deputy managing editor, and wrote "Tear Down This Wall" about Pres. Reagan's famous speech....
  3. For a book talk today, we have Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Meyer. Both have written recent works on the Berlin Wall: http://bit.ly/4yiUC9
  4. Also check out the statement by foreign ministers convened by our Aspen Atlantic Group on Afghanistan & Pakistan: http://bit.ly/91SmMM
  5. Our CEO & President Walter Isaacson writes this week in Time about the need for a reset of US strategy in the Mideast: http://bit.ly/5pE3iy
  6. Watch Fayyad's talk (with Tom Friedman) on the Ideas Festival site: http://bit.ly/7gxEwj
  7. Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad's talk in Aspen re Jews in future Palestinian State is mentioned here: http://bit.ly/5DyhFe ...
  8. Del. Norton: "If you are not in the Congress" to get something economic done for the people you represent, "you have someplace else to be."
  9. Del. Norton is visibly exasperated after 1 hr (or twelve rounds?) w/Plotkin. Nicer Q&A is re: support for statehood & jobs/USG HQs in DC.
  10. Del. Norton portrays herself as btwn rock & hard place w/vote on House vote 4 DC bill carrying pro-gun amendments. Plotkin pushing hard.
  11. RT @JenCMyers: HEATED back-and-forth b/t Del. Norton & WTOP's Mark Plotkin at @AspenInstitute r-table. Video online soon. It's a must watch!
  12. Plotkin & Holmes Norton have a sharp repartee. Del. Norton credits her chats w/@stephenthome Colbert w/raising profile of DC voting rights.
  13. Mark Plotkin introduces his talk w/delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton w/a disquisition on current status of getting DC a full vote in Congress.
  14. On @nprnews Afghan Ambassador Jawad talked Afghan future. http://bit.ly/5p1X8R Jawad visited us earlier this year: http://bit.ly/59OINX
  15. Also invited: FBI's Mueller, past & present WH Counterterrorism Advisers Townsend & Brennan. More at http://www.aspensecurityforum.org.
  16. Great lineup for our Security Forum: fmr LAPD chief Bratton, fmr DHS Sec Chertoff, CJCS Mullen, Hmlnd Sec Cmte Chair Thompson all confirmed.
  17. RT @makower: Aspen Institute seeking nominations for social innovator award http://bit.ly/93jr7B | Go First Movers!
  18. A few passes remain for Ideas Festival, and registration is open for all three events. Learn more at http://bit.ly/pubprog
  19. Sounds crazy, I know, but we're gearing up for the summer season w/Aspen Security Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival and Aspen Environment Forum.
  20. RT @JenCMyers: Sen. Klobuchar at #innovation09: In regular font, #hcr bill (said to be 2000 pages long) is shorter than Palin's book.