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JC Penney’s Ron Johnson? I THOUGHT He Looked Familiar

Keeping Up With Mozart (or not) “Ron Johnson” is not exactly the kind of name that stands out, especially to someone living in Scandinavian-rich Minnesota, as I do. However, the headshots that accompanied the various stories on JC Penney’s new CEO did look awfully familiar. So, I looked him up. Yup, he was at Stanford when...
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“Going to Stanford?” Now, it Comes to You

Class Size: Millions Annual cost to go to Stanford (tuition, room & board, books): 1980: $15k 2011:  $60k 2020:  free?? Once upon a time (like when I was 18), a year at Stanford was expensive but still affordable. So, someone from a middle class, Minnesota family (mine) could swing it with a little financial aid and some...
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Minneapolis’ is Bigger

California Dispatches [Editor’s Note:  I’m in California for the next few days for some much-needed R&R, so my posts will have a local (vs. Minnesota) flavor.]   You’d certainly think that the Apple store on Palo Alto’s University Ave. — just down the street from Stanford, in the bosom of Silicon Valley — would boast a bigger...
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Oscars on Sunday Night: the REAL "Avatar" Revolution

“Avatar” and the Commoditization of Actors Quick, name an actor from “Avatar,” the world’s highest grossing movie at $2.5 billion (so far). With the exception of Sigourney Weaver, you probably can’t. While the movie reportedly cost $250 million to make (and another $150 million to market!), almost all of that went into technology, not actors’...
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Realtor Dreams — and Nightmares!

Don’t wait — procrastinate now! –Ellen Degeneres In college, I used to dream that I was barely halfway through an impossibly long and difficult final exam, and time was just about to run out (sort of the academic “running in quicksand” nightmare). As a lawyer, I used to dream that I hadn’t done my time...
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Barney Frank: ‘Pull Plug on Fannie, Freddie’

Dear Barney: Read This! Imagine Ted Kennedy, before he died, admitting that the health care reform bill was a mess and that everyone should start over. Or John McCain saying that campaign finance laws were unworkable, and should be scrapped (actually, the Supreme Court just said that). So it’s big news when Congressman Barney Frank,...
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