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Every Monday, we post 5 things that we're looking forward to enjoying in the upcoming week. These things are selected by Plum staff and often times by you. They'll range from humble to haute and include shopping, drinking, sunning, and playing at various treasured spots and shops. This week we're looking forward to...
June 29, 2009
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Every Monday, we post 5 things that we're looking forward to enjoying in the upcoming week. These things are selected by Plum staff and often times by you. They'll range from humble to haute and include shopping, drinking, sunning, and playing at various treasured spots and shops. This week we're looking forward to...
June 22, 2009
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It’s no wonder that Aspen is a world-renowned ski resort, with more than 400 inches of snow this winter alone, an unrivaled nightlife, and a cowboy sensibility that keeps visitors coming back for more. But Aspen is just as amazing when the mountains are green as it is when they are white.
April 29, 2009
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Helen Klanderud, former Aspen Mayor & current Aspen Ambassador, joins with Oliver Sharpe & Ann Korologos to discuss a few of her 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival highlights including talks by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Bernardine Dohrn & Marian Wright Edelman. Helen shares that the biggest idea she took away from the Festival is that we need to be "achieving more for our children."
July 9, 2009
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What do some of the finest minds from around the world have to say about the "real" issues affecting Americans? Plum correspondent Bob Oshack took to the campus of The Aspen Institute to find out Ideas Fest guests' opinions of the Pop Culture War. A few of the featured fine minds include Bob Schieffer of CBS News, journalist Raymond Learsy, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
July 9, 2009
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Lewis Black, author, actor, playwright, Daily Show correspondent & comedic curmudgeon, joins Oliver Sharpe & Ann Korologos at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival to share a few big ideas. Lewis discusses a few of the panels he is participating including the comedy/journalism event, The News Has No Clothes, as well as his latest book Me Of Little Faith (his take on religion). Lewis also shares what he believes to be the most important topic facing America: Education & the lack of quality education. He speaks about the importance of honoring the Social Contract and laments the declining status of the profession of teaching. Black also offers another big idea...finding some way to pump more oxygen into Aspen.
July 9, 2009
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Christopher Hyzy, Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer for U.S. Trust, joins Oliver Sharpe to discuss the state of the economy & the panel on the economy he participated in at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. Christopher shared his belief that the recession has ended & we are now entering a lengthy recovery phase ("The Sweet Spot").
July 6, 2009
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