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Opening General
Session with
General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
Sunday, June 25, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 General
Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) became the 65th secretary of state on
January 20, 2001. Previously, he served as a key aide to the secretary
of defense and as national security advisor to President Reagan.
He also served 35 years in the United States Army, rising to the
rank of four-star general and serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff (1989-1993). During this time he oversaw 28 crises, including
Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. That experience
served him well, both before and after the events of September 11,
2001. General Powell was at the forefront of the administration's
efforts to advance economic and social development worldwide. General
Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards and decorations
and a wide variety of civilian awards including two Presidential
Medals of Freedom. He is the author of his best-selling autobiography,
My American Journey.
General
Session with Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Monday, June 26, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
 Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. was Chairman of the Board of IBM Corporation from April 1993 until
his retirement in December 2002. He served as Chief Executive Officer of IBM from 1993
until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of Chairman of The Carlyle
Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. Prior to joining IBM, Lou
served for four years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. This
was preceded by an 11-year career at American Express Company, where he was
president of the parent company and Chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary,
American Express Travel Related Services Company. Prior to that, he was a director of
the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Company, Incorporated, which he joined
in 1965. He has received numerous awards for his work in education, among them the
Cleveland E. Dodge Medal for Distinguished Service to Education - Teachers College,
Columbia University, and the Distinguished Service to Science and Education award from
the American Museum of Natural History. In recognition of his efforts on behalf of public
education, as well as his business accomplishments, Mr. Gerstner was awarded the
designation of honorary Knight of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2001.
Mr. Gerstner is the author of Who Says Elephants Can't Dance, the best-selling account of
IBM's transformation; and he is the co-author of the book Reinventing Education:
Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools (Dutton 1994).
General Session
with David McCullough
Tuesday, June 27, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
 David
McCullough, author of the bestseller 1776, is twice winner
of the National Book Award and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
He has been called a "master of the art of narrative history." His
books have been praised for their exceptional narrative sweep, their
scholarship and insight into American life, and for their literary
distinction. His latest book, 1776, has been called "brilliant,"
"lucid," "gripping," "a masterwork," "a classic," and has been a
continuing national triumph from the time of publication last June
when it came on the New York Times bestseller list at number one.
Mr. McCullough’s previous work, John Adams, remains one
of the most critically acclaimed and widely read American biographies
of all time. To date more than two million copies have been sold.
Gordon Wood, writing in the New York Review of Books, said of John
Adams, "McCullough’s special gift as an artist is his ability to
recreate past human beings in all their fullness and all their humanity."
In the words of the citation accompanying his honorary degree from
Yale, "As an historian, he paints with words, giving us pictures
of the American people that live, breath, and above all, confront
the fundamental issues of courage, achievement, and moral character."
His other books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great
Bridge, The Path between the Seas, Mornings on
Horseback, Brave Companions, and Truman.
As may be said of few writers, none of his books has ever been out
of print.
General
Session with Liz Murray
Wednesday, June 28, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
 Liz
Murray's life is a triumph over adversity and a stunning example
of the importance of dreaming big. Her life as the child of cocaine-addicted
parents in the Bronx was bitterly grim. By age 15, Murray's mom
had died and she was homeless -- living on the streets, riding the
subway all night, and eating from dumpsters. Amidst this pain, Liz
always imagined her life could be much better than it was. "I started
to grasp the value of the lessons learned while living on the streets.
I knew, after overcoming those daily obstacles that next to nothing
could hold me down." Liz finished high school in just two years
while camping out in New York City parks and subway stations. She
went on to earn a scholarship from The New York Times and
entered Harvard in 2000. In order to be closer to her ill father,
Liz has since chosen to attend Columbia University. Lifetime Television
produced a movie about Liz's life story entitled From Homeless
to Harvard, which premiered in April 2003. She is currently
writing her memoirs and was a recent recipient of Oprah Winfrey's
first ever Chutzpah Award.
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