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Small dreams have no place at the Limited, Inc. Founded in 1963 by Chairman Leslie Wexner, the Columbus-based firm consists of Limited Stores and six other retail divisions. Indeed, the company has grown so fast that $1,000 worth of shares bought when the firm first went public in 1969 would today be worth $1,237,000. Wexner gives Gibson credit for much of that success...
Married at the end of her sophomore year at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va., Gibson worked in various cities while her husband James was building his career in sales. In 1971 she saw her first Limited store in a shopping mall in Columbus. Intrigued by its high-style, affordable fashion approach, she got in touch with Wexner. Says he: "No one had ever called me to talk about my business. She became my assistant with no title and little...
...other ways, too, the pastiche that Writer Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Goonies) has concocted to show us the Young Sherlock Holmes in adolescence has something of the true canonical spirit. There are casually astounding displays of deductive reasoning, evil plotters recruited from the far corners of empire trying to avenge ancient wrongs. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural) has a tasteful eye for Victorian atmosphere: fog, hansom cabs, the glow of gaslight. But one does not automatically imagine these characters, this period, having much appeal for today's young audience...
...Republicans, and G.O.P. appointees account for the majority of judges on 10 of the 13 federal appeals courts, Scarborough and others believe the bench is the last bastion of liberalism. Like so many of his preaching peers--from D. James Kennedy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Rod Parsley near Columbus, Ohio--Scarborough believes that "activist" judges have imposed their personal beliefs by creating new rights on abortion, gay marriage and pornography that aren't expressly stated in the Constitution. They say those same judges have also restricted freedom of religion by, for example, ordering the removal of a Ten Commandments...
...also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence for his own “Columbus-like” trip to India...