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...Penney gone trendy? New CEO Myron (Mike) Ullman wants you to think so. He has introduced new lines from Nicole Miller and Chris Madden to the mid-tier department-store, Internet and mail-order business while streamlining sales and launching a new "emotive advertising" campaign. "Mike's a marketing wizard," says analyst Bob Buchanan of A.G. Edwards & Sons. "He tells the customer that just because she doesn't make 100 grand a year doesn't mean she can't look good." Penney's earnings quadrupled in the first quarter over last year, to $172 million. Ullman's clearly doing something...
...taking trash lying around and turning it into a page turner. But it makes me laugh that people take it seriously." Still, Eco treats lowbrow cultural phenomena with the same seriousness as higher-flown accomplishments. In one essay, for example, he analyzes the essence of Italian society by observing Mike Bongiorno, a TV game show host; another dissects the design of the 1,000-lire note. He has also described how comic-book hero Flash Gordon imparted American ideals to children growing up in Mussolini's Italy. Everything is grist for his mill. Eco's catholic approach is reflected...
...hard to remember that a house, boom or bust, remains the place where you kick off your shoes at the end of the day. Carol Connelly, 53, and husband Mike, 52, live in a 4,000-sq.-ft. house in the small central Michigan town of Gobles. The Connellys used to live in Chicago, where they sold their Lincoln Park house for $450,000--having paid $208,000--giving them enough money to buy their place in Gobles outright, leave their high-pay, high-pressure jobs and spend more time with their kids...
...five-run Fullerton third inning, Crimson starter Mike Morgalis showed flashes of strength, striking out five and holding the Titans’ best slugger, DH Sergio Pedroza, hitless...
Before Denis Leary was a fire fighter on FX, he was a cop on ABC. The 19 episodes of The Job fall further on the "-edy" side of dramedy than those of Rescue Me, but their gallows humor is much the same. As Mike McNeil, a boozing, cough-syrup-guzzling, philandering detective, Leary charms through sheer insolence...