Excerpts from a press release in my email box:

ASPEN INSTITUTE AND THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY LAUNCH ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL
JANE GOODALL, COLIN POWELL AND TONI MORRISON AMONG HEADLINERS
Next Tuesday begins this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival–a gathering place for 100 of today’s most profound and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, corporate heads, policy officials, scholars and other leaders….
The Festival’s speakers, panelists and moderators have been drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of interest, creating a diverse mix of experts to contribute to the program. The “headliners” include noted primatologist Jane Goodall, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, Nobel laureate author Toni Morrison, PBS newsman Jim Lehrer, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., former Secretary of State Colin Powell and America’s Promise chairperson Alma Powell, Colorado Governor Bill Owens, Pastor Rick Warren, bestselling author of The Purpose-Driven Life, Cokie Roberts of ABC News and many others. The Atlantic Monthly’s James Fallows will also be moderating a panel.