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This month has offered Summers something of a break after the school year closed with questions about his job security. He marked four full years at Harvard on July 1 and promptly headed to Colorado for the week-long Aspen Ideas Festival, an academic equivalent of Sundance or Cannes...
...celebrity-heavy lineup of speakers in Aspen featured ten Harvard affiliates, including former University President Derek C. Bok, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and Elisa New, a professor of English and Summers’ longtime partner...
...question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention of the famous, three years ago when he prepped Travolta for Staying Alive (Fever II). Isaacson was the athletic consultant at the Snowmass Club near Aspen, Colo., where he met Travolta. "I couldn't have been a better pilot project," recalls the actor. "I was fat and out of shape." In four months Isaacson sculpted Travolta into a road-company Sly Stallone...
...shared real estate with the Lauder name in the label's 59-year history. Still, William Lauder denies that the family is divided about the Ford alliance. Indeed, he says, Leonard Lauder himself set the wheels of the deal in motion after De Sole approached him last summer in Aspen, Colo., where the two own homes. But the quidnuncs were half right. John Demsey, who ran the M.A.C. business before becoming global president of the Lauder brand in January, admits that he and Aerin Lauder pushed to include Ford's name on the label...
Just getting Spamalot onstage required some unusual cooperation. All the Pythons must approve any project that uses the group's name or material--and they have turned down plenty. In 1998, after the troupe met for a tribute at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., Idle and Cleese began work on a Python stage show. But Terry Gilliam was too busy with his own films, and Michael Palin vetoed the idea. "Mike felt that we all look so much older now, and it would look a bit sad," says Terry Jones. Idle went off to develop Spamalot...