August 14, 2011
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Gary Shapiro knows innovation.
Innovation is Apple Inc. Innovation is Amazon.com. Innovation is Google, Inc.
And what else do those companies have in common? The Consumer Electronics Association, of which Shapiro is president and CEO, gathers more than 2,000 electronics companies — including Apple, Amazon and Google — to provide market research and networking capabilities, as well as to host tradeshows.
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August 11, 2011
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C. Fred Bergsten is no stranger to Chautauqua. As a child, he came here with his parents each summer, and as a teenager, he took part in many of the athletic activities available for young Chautauquans.
Today, however, Bergsten is not coming to Chautauqua to vacation with his family; he is the last morning lecturer for this week’s theme of “The U.S. Economy: Beyond a Quick Fix.”
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August 10, 2011
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John M. Stropki began working in the shipping department of Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. as a summer job between his freshman and sophomore years at Purdue University in 1969. He was an engineering student and had no idea the job would lead to a very long career with the company.
After graduating from Purdue, Stropki joined the company full time. Now the chairman, president and CEO, Stropki will be the fourth lecturer on this week’s topic “The U.S. Economy: Beyond a Quick Fix” at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.
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August 9, 2011
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Almost as soon as she took her fact-checker’s seat at Fortune magazine, Bethany McLean knew that a journalism lifestyle was the one for her. And a fact-checker’s job is not even that fun, McLean said.
McLean sort of fell into journalism, though. She received an undergraduate degree in math and English and began working as an analyst for the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. By the time she joined Fortune in 1995, a journalism career was never on her radar. But then again, she was keeping her options open.
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August 9, 2011
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Music filled the Amphitheater during the 10:45 a.m. lecture Tuesday as Paul Solman hit “play” during his PowerPoint presentation.
The voice, belonging to soul singer Sharon Jones, sang the familiar lyrics to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
Only this time, one verse wasn’t so familiar.
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August 8, 2011
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Paul Solman thought he knew the answers when he first started reporting on business and economics.
In the ’70s, he took up a story on why Cambridge, Mass., was paying a lower interest rate on its municipal bonds than Boston. As he began asking questions, he said he came to the realization that he simply didn’t know how it all worked.
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August 7, 2011
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“The next thing I knew, I was in charge of organizing the world,” recalled John Koskinen with a laugh.
Koskinen, who launches the Week Seven examination of “The U.S. Economy: Beyond a Quick Fix” at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater, was serving as President Bill Clinton’s Year 2000 Conversion Council chairman at the time and soon found himself performing similar tasks for the United Nations, chairing meetings of more than 100 nations.
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August 4, 2011
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Seyed Hossein Mousavian has a level of first-hand experience with Iran that few scholars in the United States can match. He was born in the country in 1957 and has since held senior positions in Iranian organizations including the Foreign Ministry and Supreme National Security Council of Iran. Since 2007, he has resided in Princeton, N.J.
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August 3, 2011
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Iran is a noisy country, according to Farideh Farhi.
Farhi will deliver a lecture at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater. Her presentation is the fourth for the Week Six theme “Iran: From Ancient Persia to Middle East Powder Keg.” She is a professor of political science at University of Hawaii at Manoa, an independent scholar and an adviser to the National Iranian American Council.
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August 2, 2011
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Nicholas Burns leads a very different — but equally gratifying — life now as a Harvard University professor. For 25 years, Burns was a foreign policy diplomat for the U.S. State Department, and then he served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008, when he retired.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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