the aspen institute is the host of this event.about an hour -- it lasts about an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the aspen institute. i am the director of programs and the arts. it is my pleasure to welcome you to one of our cultural round tables. i would like to thank michelle smith for helping make this series possible. this series possible. it is my pleasure to do another of what we think of as a particular aspin kind of experience -- aspen kind of experience. i am delighted to have my friend, jim leach, the ninth chairman for the national endowment for the humanities. i still think of him as congressman leach. he was one of the most supportive members of either house of congress in terms of the arts and humanities i know that i could not have been happier and i suspect that most of you share that emotion when it was announced that he had been appointed the ninth chairman of the neh. chairman leach has a unique background. i think he is the only chairman in history, in this case, it 15 term congressman, he was educated at p

with the in the that saying is that denver and aspen did that for small landlords, not hotels and i think the distinction between personal dwelling and public accommodation is the right one to use it is a hotel you can't do it and put it is a personal thing an exception for the religious purpose is okay. within the up being quite amusing was the witnesses f the catholic expert witnesses use a form of argument coming from the new natural law according to which masturbation as the central fires and all other vices our vices because they resemble masturbation's a they were doing landlords should be able to refuse to rent to people with whom they believed the white masturbate in the apartment. [laughter] it's not an argument the rental market would be so pleased with. so anyway -- i don't agree they are on problematic. in illinois we've been fighting to get them in catholic church opposes to and neil and we haven't got it. the vast majority not only citizens of catholics support it but it's the fact certain legislators do not want to risk the cardinal georgia and other leading. why should the

now, what they ended up saying was denver actually -- denver and aspen did that anyway for small landlords not for hotels and i think a distinction of a personal dwelling and a public accommodation is probably the right one to use here.b3Ñ and if it's a hotel you can't do it and -- but if it's a personal thing well, an exemption for religious purposes is okay. what ended up being quite amusing in romer was that the witnesses for the catholic expert witnesses used a form of argument coming from new natural law -- according to which masturbation is the vice and they were arguing that landlords should be able to refuse to rent of people whom they believed they might masturbate in the apartment. [laughter] >> this is not exactly an argument that the rental market be so pleased with. so anyway, yeah. and by the way, i don't entirely agree with you that civil unions are unproblematic. in illinois we've been fighting for many years to get them. and catholic church opposes tooth and nail. and we haven't it got. the vast majority not only of citizens but of catholics support it. but it's the f

[laughter] >> so you know welcome to the aspen institute. gym, it is our pleasure to have you here today. >> i am honored to be here. i think aspin is very fortunate to have, for the first time to my knowledge, a poet in the midst. >> they hide me come and despite that. [laughter] >> well, there's a lot of things we could talk about, but what i want to actually to ask you a general question, goes back to some of the things i said in my introduction. you have an absolutely unique and invaluable training for a cultural chairman, which is that you, you know, were a member of congress. you understand the congressional process, which is something that's really fundamental to the success of the cultural agencies. i was wondering, you know, what is your perspective on the? is that something, you

this was done in aspen. i went to denver. they said it looks pretty good.nesday, my doctor, calls me and said are you sitting down and i'm like why. she said it came back positive. i'm like positive? that's not good. normally positive is a good thing but not in this case. i was pretty shocked. i said okay. what does this mean? she said we don't know yet. maybe lumpectomy, radiation, probably, chemotherapy maybe. so i had to sit down and i was needless to say i was pretty shocked. because i was so sure it was going to be nothing. even when they were doing the biopsy, i was joking around with them. >> larry: why were you so sure? >> because i'm so healthy and young. i'm an aarp member, but i feel in my head, i feel about 12. i feel like most of the time, i feel like i'm in my 30s or 40s. i thought it was too soon for this. i have no breast cancer history in my family. my grandmothers died from cancer, but they were 86, 87 years old. i thought this was a bit too soon for that. so i was pretty shocked. >> larry: martina, did you get regular mammograms? >> i hav

what they ended up saying is denver actively denver and aspen did that in the way for small landlordsor hotels and i think the distinction between personal dwelling and public accommodation is probably the right one to use. it is a hotel you can't do it, but if it is a personal thing and extension for religious purposes okay. what ended up being quite amusing in a row murderesses evans was the witnesses for the catholic expert witnesses used a form of argument coming from the natural wall according to which masturbation is the central fisa and all others are vices because they resemble masturbation and so they actually were arguing landlords should be able to refuse to rent to people whom they believed they might masturbate in the apartment. [laughter] that's not exactly an argument the rental market would be pleased with. but so anyway. and by the way i don't entirely agree that several unions are not problematic. in illinois we've been fighting for years to get them and the catholic church opposes to and nail. a vast majority of citizens and catholics support it, but it's the fact t

it's sage brush, wild grass, small quaking aspen trees.he road where she was found near is a dirt track. just the -- just vehicles driving over it, mostly trucks out there. not many cars. have made a track in it. but it's just dirt. and a perfect place to dump a body. somebody killed the woman there and dumped her. the only question is who she is. >> when you say it is very rural, out of the way, how often is that rural route used? >> based on -- i'm looking at the picture of it, and there couldn't be more than a few trucks go over that in a week because it's not a real road. just the track where the truck tires have made two ridges in the dirt. there's no gravel, no nothing. it's just dirt. and weeds. >> with us, jim kirkwood with ktkk news radio. joining us out of salt lake city, utah. let's unleash the lawyers. joining us tonight, child advocate, family law attorney, susan moss, new york. peter ellikan, defense attorney and author of "super predators," boston. out of new york, former prosecutor turned defense attorney doug burns. weigh

you're a phillies with the aspen institute seems to have set alarm bells so soft power could be usedr the kind of -- the had the same defensive attitude toward community organizers that some community organizers have. [laughter] >> and, you know, hard-liners like to talk about soft revolution or velvet revolution as something being masterminded on particularly the u.s. government and they say the argument they have is the u.s. government is trying to inject ideas through using a iranian eletes like academics and others in society who would then use civil society and the media to spread these ideas about i suppose dr. c. and human rights to the masses to send a non-violent revolution. if you define a velvet revolution like this i don't know if there is actually such a thing. if there is a possibility of ideas spreading that are countered with interest of the regime, ideals about democracy and human rights if they do spread more in the population lives in them spreading more in the population of iran they can be perhaps threatening to the people in government because they don't want mo

skiing and they've had a pile of skiing and that extended across the i-70 corridor, south towards aspen vail, i think, got 19 inches of snow. not a lot of people showing up for work today. careers are nothing today on a powder day. you don't have friends. you don't have mothers. denver seeing some snow right now and this will begin to taper off throughout the afternoon. the rainfall today right now, chicago, back through detroit, this is not severe yet, but later on today we still have that threat for seeing severe weather in the same spots and maybe shifting it just a little bit farther to the east today. this is a very slow, slow moving storm and there will be severe thunderstorms that pop up. we will see more in the way of hail and gusty winds and lightning and just a slight chance of seeing tornadoes. yesterday we didn't see any and we haven't seen much at all this year, actually. 80 or so since the beginning of the year and we should see 300 and we're well below average and that's good news. if you like the heat, my goodness, you will see it today, temperatures were well above aver

campbell, whom i've also known because he has participated in this same aspen strategy group for morethan a decade, mr. campbell is currently the assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, a position to which he was unanimously confirmed on june 25, 2009. so the same questions were asked of him as were asked of lael brainard. she has responded to questions in multiple rounds for majority and minority staff. she has answered every question asked of her and provided hundreds of pages of submissions in a forthcoming, honest and direct manner. now, clearly at some point there were some differences of opinion for some members, but that has been settled to the best of my knowledge. paperwork has been submitted about taxes, about hiring of household employees. and during this time, neither the foreign relations committee nor any member of the full senate has raised any concern regarding this information. so as the united states is entering a particularly intense period of international engagements this spring and summer, i believe dr. brainard's confirmation is essenti

changes concluding with the election of barack obama could he discusses the turn-of-the-century with aspeninstitute president walter isaacson. >> host: hello. it's my pleasure to be here with bill bennett, an old friend, someone who's written now a third in a trilogy of history books. there were too great volumes you did on american history that ended in 1989, and now you are doing a slightly slower volume to continue it to the present; is that how you see it is part of a trilogy? >> guest: is part of a trilogy. the book is "a century turns" but it's the third of a series america's last best hope. i was reluctant. you know, you've written history books. this is close to us, was worried that perspective object to the but because america last best hope first two volumes are now in schools, available in public schools, teachers like to believe they are going to get up to the present. i say that because usually they don't make it but they like to believe they are going to get their students to the present so they asked me. >> host: america last best hope in some ways tried to in your mind righ

what discourages me, you know, you have seen a million assessments and heard all of the panels at aspen and you convened them all and many very, very good and i have sat in on a few and here's what discourages me when we test our kids in 4th grade in math and science we're in the top third and the 8th grade we're in the middle and test or kids the 11th grade we're at the bottom and that is really discouraging and the longer you stay in our system the dumber you get relative to kids in other countries and that will not work, not in this economy. i talked to kids at harvard graduating with good gpas losing jobs to kids from other countries, and tom freeden eni talks about "the world is flat" and in some ways it is in terms of competitiveness and the sheer dollar value of intellectual capital has never been more important. what encourages me, is that there is some common ground on education, and what also encourages me is we know what works, and what makes for good teaching now, there is a lot of research in that and apart from the family, home, the teacher, is the single most important pe