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...telling that to Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character...
...weapon? San Francisco's Union Square district--home to Armani, Bulgari, Cartier and now Cody's. This month Ross has expanded across the bay from Berkeley into a two-story, 22,000-sq.-ft. space next to a Virgin Megastore and opposite an Apple Store. A garish $35,000 yellow sign outside can be seen all the way from Macy's--crucial, Ross says, to luring the shopaholics who frequent the district into the store (and away from the nearby Borders...
...take the risk? Efforts to shrink Cody's two Berkeley locations into profitability had failed, so Ross decided that to make money, one must spend money. Together with an accountant friend, Ross projected that sales from a San Francisco store would make the business profitable. "Even if we're off by 20%," Ross says, "we still break even and we pay back the loan." That loan wasn't easy to come by. Ross says he was rejected by six banks before an independent lender, Summit Bank in Oakland, agreed to put up $1.9 million. "I had to get help from...
...seen as overly focused on details and technicalities while missing the fundamental values embedded in such matters as job discrimination and jury selection. "He approaches law in a formalistic, mechanical way abstracted from human experience," says Goodwin Liu, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley...
...wrote in an e-mail. “This kind of extremism does not contribute to dialogue on campus, but rather overshadows the legitimate and concerted efforts of moderate peace-seekers to find common ground.”Finkelstein has visited schools such Yale, the University of Virginia, and Berkeley in the last two months. HLS Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove said controversy need not be avoided in such events.“Controversial events can make people uncomfortable,” Cosgrove said, “but we support the speaker’s right to speak...