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...classes, all the extracurriculars, and service I’d done.”A homeschooling parent who considers herself more of a “general contractor” than a teacher, Carla Jentoft educated her three children in the family’s Circle Pines, Minn., home. Having studied abroad during college, this high school valedictorian and her husband wanted to provide their children with a rigorous education including a solid foundation in the humanities. Unsatisfied with local schools and armed with Carla Jentoft’s teaching degree from St. Olaf College, they decided to homeschool...
Absent from the preview was Target executive Trish Adams, the woman responsible for green-lighting the New York City designer as the retailer's latest glamorous liaison. Adams, it turns out, was more than a thousand miles away at the company's Minneapolis, Minn., headquarters. Nose down, no piccolo. Adams, like Gina Sprenger, her counterpart at Target's furniture division, is accustomed to toiling behind the scenes, brokering profitable alliances at a time when almost every mainstream retailer is craving a dose of designer cachet. These days you are nothing without your boldface co-conspirators. H&M has Madonna. Kohl...
...forefront of green innovation in terms of product and store design?in the beauty business or any business?is Minnesota-based Aveda. For decades, Aveda has concentrated on using green energy, renewable resources and plant-based alternatives to synthetic ingredients. Its distribution center in Blaine, Minn., is 100% wind powered. Its makeup casings are refillable, and a candle that Aveda created last year won an award for its packaging, which contained makeready paper, used by printing presses to prepare for a job. Aveda claims to be the world's largest purchaser of organic essential oils, and to make...
Franken said yesterday that he would challenge Republican Sen. Norman B. Coleman (R-Minn.) next year, confirming longtime rumors that he would mount a bid for the Senate. Before taking on Coleman, Franken will face off against wealthy trial lawyer Michael V. Ciresi in the Democratic primary...
...found cause for enthusiasm in the committee’s first meeting under their rule. “I think I heard someone say yesterday that this is not going to be your daddy’s Joint Economic Committee anymore,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). “We’re going to really focus on these middle class issues and what matters.” —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...