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I spent the '70s in this little three-person store in West St. Paul [Best Buy was then called Sound of Music.] We had seven stores. We were losing a lot of money because our strategy wasn't appropriate anymore and the company was having trouble paying its bills. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

A lot of this is being in the right place at the right time and then knowing how to seize [the moment]. I am the least likely person to know how. It was completely out of character. I had been in the store for seven years so I had watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Best known as the young George Bailey in the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, actor Robert Anderson appeared in other films, including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Bishop's Wife, after playing the childhood version of Jimmy Stewart's now beloved character. But by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

"The first thing you should know about me," says the title character (Billie Piper), "is that I'm a whore." Her name is the second thing--and the third: she's "Belle" to her clients, "Hannah" (her real name) off the job. (The series is based on a blog by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

It would have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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