Imagine that there's a business that started in the early '60's, out of a garage in the Mojave Desert close by Edwards Air Force base. The founder was strangely charismatic,… Read More
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Ever seen that 2004 movie Raising Helen? The one in which Kate Hudson played a free-spirited and self-obsessed modeling agency assistant who suddenly finds herself raising her sister’s three orphaned… Read More
Imagine this scenario: there’s a new startup in a very competitive field. It’s off to a shaky debut but has real promise. The CEO is tall, aristocratic, smart, taciturn –… Read More
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They are an iconic image from childhood for anyone who ever has as much as leafed through a DC or Marvel comic book. Sea Monkeys. Always on the back page,… Read More
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The Wild Bunch is an iconic movie of the ‘60’s. A western when westerns were fading away to irreverence, it brought a modern sensibility to the genre. It’s bloody, sarcastic, cutting,… Read More
I know an attorney who did a fair amount of business and estate planning in the late ‘90s in the Greater New York City area. He told me the following… Read More
In a lot of ways, it’s a typical New England river town – once a center of manufacturing, now a tired downtown and magnificent but abandoned brick mills scattered on… Read More
