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...years, three generations of Robert Blue's family have operated a luggage store at Hollywood and Vine, along the brass-starred Walk of Fame. Lucille Ball bought her suitcases there. The neighborhood fell into disrepair in recent years, though, with homeless people camping out on trash-strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue...
...will Allergan. After buying up Inamed, minus Reloxin, it formed a separate medical-aesthetics division. Part of its mission, according to its head, Robert Grant: to build "a total facial-rejuvenation portfolio" that can capitalize on Allergan's Botox-driven market reach. "This is an opportunity to create a new category which will have legs not just for the next decade but for the next 100 years," he says...
...Committee on the Study of Religion, which currently administers the undergraduate concentration in the comparative study of religion, will be the main unit responding to the new requirement, said Robert A. Orsi, chair of the department...
...Robert Winters, a political observer and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal, said that he was confident that most Massachusetts voters would agree with the proposal...
...nonprofits is by looking for charities with low operating costs. Ask a nonprofit what percentage of the budget covers overhead and how much the CEO takes as salary. But you should be wary of smaller nonprofits that have been around a while and have grown tired or obsolete, says Robert Egger, author of Begging for Change, a book about nonprofits. Egger's advice: look for an organization with some turnover at the board level, a sign that new ideas are welcome. But you should probably avoid an organization with persistent turnover in management, a sign that the charity is ineffective...