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Jenna Bush Hager Inspires in Sarasota, Fla.

“It wasn’t a philosophical moment,” Jenna Bush Hager told more than 500 members of the Ringling College Library Association last Monday at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, Fla., it was about “a man, his daughters, a stuffed animal and a little joke.”

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Capt. Mark Kelly Explains Recent Assault Weapon Purchase during Sarasota Press Conference

It wasn’t by choice Capt. Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords have become faces of gun control. “When you have 20 first graders murdered in their classrooms and we see these mass shootings time and time again, I think everybody has got to do something,” Kelly said during a press conference in Sarasota, Fla., […]

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Talks Military, CIA in Sarasota, Fla.

Traveling to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2006 was one of the most influential life experiences I’ve had. On one level, it offered a snapshot to help me understand what the Afghan people were experiencing, particularity the hardships of women and children and opened my eyes to their feeling of abandonment from the U.S. On another and […]

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Part 1: Jerk and Genius, Biographer Walter Isaacson Talks Steve Jobs in Sarasota

Steve Jobs was a “jerk,” biographer Walter Isaacson said during the kick off of the Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall 2013 Lecture Series on Jan. 15, in Sarasota, Fla. Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former Chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of TIME magazine, penned “Steve Jobs“, the only […]