NANCY BROOK My fascination with France began long ago with my French uncle, Clarence. As a teenager, I’d travel to visit Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Clarence during my summer vacations. I remember the discreet half-shots of whiskey my uncle gave me more than I remember him talking about his family’s home country. But I loved…
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TOM CONWAY Pete Musser, founder and former CEO of Safeguard Scientifics and legendary venture capitalist, presides over The Musser Group, waxes poetic about the past, and navigates the newest bubble while making the savvy (and profitable) investments that made him famous. The football caught my eye before anything else. It sits encased in glass across…
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GEORGE FEIFER Starting with elementary facts about the largest land-sea-air battle in history may make sense because they’re so little known. Or approximation of facts, since the number of Okinawan civilians killed in 1945 will never be known, the three months of battle for their once famously peaceful, traditionally submissive island having destroyed virtually all…
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At the end of this month, on April 2nd, Google will shut down what they called the “consumer version” of Google Plus, their fourth major foray into building a Social Network. The deadline had been the end of the year but was moved up due to a number of cited factors, including data breaches. When a seismic event…
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