| Minding the Gap
Two days before Black Friday, that late-November day when all hell breaks loose in the holiday-obsessed American retail industry, Gap Inc. chief executive Glenn Murphy was calmly walking analysts through the company's good-news, bad-news third quarter. Murphy, a veteran Canadian merchant, was recruited last summer by the struggling San Francisco-based retail giant, and this session marked his first full reporting period as the new boss. Though he hails from the considerably less stampede-prone world of big-box pharmacies—Murphy had been the CEO of Shoppers Drug Mart since 2001, presiding over a spectacularly successful run—he gamely talked about 5 a.m. store openings as if they were old hat. Murphy let on that he planned to drop by an Orlando store for a midnight madness event.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
I'm trying to figure out why Brand X published another one of its anti-LCDC bashing columns without properly identifying the writer. On the Op-Ed page today, M.K. Sims joins DanG, Mary Souza and a coupla Pachyderm Club types in the anti-LCDChorus in a screed, titled: "LCDC is spending cash like it's play money." Is M.K. Kathy Sims, owner of Coeur d'Alene Honda and former KCo Repub chairwoman and appointed Idaho senator? If so, why doesn't the Press ID her as such. Inquiring minds want to know.
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Issues take back seat at debate as Obama and Clinton tangle
But, in the end it looks like we'll either get Hillary or Romney for pres, which will do nothing more than vindicate that B.S. works to the max and that we deserve the next 4 - 8 years of the shell game we'll get from either one of them. And the other side will complain and moan, mostly because they're not in the position to move the peas around themselves. .
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