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...Dear Mom...
Robert E. Grenier, manager of the HSTO, is quick to explain that Harvard is not getting rich off calls to Mom...
...board with branding-savvy executives from Hasbro, Intuit and Starbucks. But everyone finds working on the auction sites, well, different. Auction Universe chief executive officer Larry Schwartz recalls how someone tried to sell a live kidney for $250,000 before the company yanked the organ off-line. Suburban mom Kathy Barnett of Hoffman Estates, Ill., says she buys "garage-sale doodads" and quickly resells them on eBay: "I paid 10[cents] for a 1930s cookbook and auctioned it for $10." Ray Geeck of Lake Panasoffkee, Fla., began casually hawking dolls from his home and claims to have grossed $1 million...
...month when Hasbro rolls out an action figure modeled after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL, the latest addition to Hasbro's Historic Commanders Assortment. Powell (the doll) eschews fatigues for a decorated dress uniform and tie. But after a tough day of reconnaissance in Mom's petunia garden, the general and company might want to kick off their combat boots and relax. That's where G.I. Bob comes in, as in Bob Hope, the first Hasbro Hollywood Hero. Hope, dressed in a pith helmet and leather jacket, will begin entertaining troops from toy-store shelves...
...brought my mom here before she died, to show her what kept me going to the ocean," she says. We come to a shovelnose guitarfish, named for obvious reasons. A grouper rows by, sculling with its pectorals. We take in the synchronized swimming of sardines and the pensive patrol of a leopard shark. She points out mackerel gleaming in the light. "I have been diving in shallows like these with the moon overhead," she says. Only half kidding, she adds, "I consider them all to be holy mackerel...