Aspen Institute News
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Like two conspiring schoolgirls, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Jillian Sackler held hands and giggled as they walked through the “Roads of Arabia” exhibition last night at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
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Dish Network Corp.’s stagnating growth is increasing the pressure on Chairman Charlie Ergen to combine with rival DirecTV, 10 years after a failed attempt.
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Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen, a former professional poker player, has bet the satellite TV provider’s future on a shift into the wireless business. That wager is in jeopardy as the U.S. mobile industry consolidates.
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Jim Rogers is sitting in his sleek, modern office on the 48th floor of the Duke Energy Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, explaining how, after a merger capped off by an 11th-hour management coup, he remains chief executive officer of the largest electric utility in the U.S. He wonders aloud whether to enliven the account with a metaphor about soured romance.
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The tables were named after Afghan provinces and the host welcomed his guests in Farsi.
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When Larry Estrada graduates from Harvard Business School next week, he’ll begin work at Goldman Sachs Group Inc . He’ll do so only after taking an oath.
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Biographer and Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs. TONIGHT on Charlie Rose @ 7p & 10p ET. (Source: Bloomberg)
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In an election focused on jobs, President Barack Obama can boast of crossing one milestone: the longest stretch of employment gains in manufacturing in almost two decades.
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The U.S. will clean a Vietnam War site contaminated with an Agent Orange byproduct for the first time since fighting ended 37 years ago, boosting ties with a former enemy that blames the herbicide for poisoning millions.
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On an unexpectedly rainy October day in Los Angeles, Stewart Resnick looks out the window of a third-floor conference room and shrugs. It's midway through California's biggest-ever pistachio harvest and the rain is yet another reminder, should anyone need it, of how important water is to his business. He helps himself to a half a vegetable wrap and a bottle of Fiji Water—one of the four big consumer brands Resnick owns—and takes his place at the head of the table, where senior executives of his private company, Roll International, have gathered to discuss how to sell 300 million pounds of pistachios.
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