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...list are all super-focused on what they sell. Chico's is for comfortable women's clothing. Gymboree is to dress your kids. Jos. A. Bank Clothiers is for men's suits and dress shirts. And PetMed Express is to order your dog's prescription online. Department stores, big-box discounters and generalist web sites - retailers that try to be everything to everyone - are nowhere to be found. (See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
Harris-Moore, 6 ft. 5 in. (1.96 m), has become a legend in the Pacific Northwest - T-shirts bearing his face or the words "Fly, Colton, fly" are big sellers in Seattle - and on the Internet. His Facebook fan club has 8,000 members, and a hokey ballad on YouTube sings his praises. Harris-Moore's supporters see a deeper meaning to his popularity: During hard economic times, they say, why not celebrate a poor boy who robs from the island vacation homes of Seattle's dotcom gazillionaires? But Harris-Moore apparently steals just as often from Camano's ordinary...
...stories. I ran into an ancient cousin of mine a week ago, and she told me something I'd never heard before. My grandfather Keillor died before I was born, and she told me that every night, he lifted my grandmother into his arms--he's a farmer, a big woodworking guy--and carried her upstairs into bed. He had a big mustache and beautiful singing voice. From that, you could come up with a whole year's worth of stories almost...
...says that many are reverting to type. "They offered me an oil field to call off my boys," says the leader. "These guys aren't sincere. All they care about is getting oil production back up. They think they can just buy us off." (Read "'Nigeria's Taliban': How Big a Threat...
Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri was known as Iran's defiant cleric, first in challenging the autocratic rule of the Shah, and then later in confronting the very revolution he had helped foment. Now, the big question in Tehran is whether his sudden death of natural causes will catalyze a broader showdown between the regime and the opposition Green Movement...