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Family is the Game Plan

Fernando Mendoza is an odd name for a Heisman Trophy candidate college quarterback, much less one from Number One ranked Indiana, which hadn’t won the Big Ten for 58 years until last Saturday. Fernando ended up in Bloomington via Miami and Berkeley, California. His brother Alberto was already there, also

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Pools of Money

We hear the term “private equity” tossed around every day in business. The Bloomberg ticker tells us about the giants that often go by initials

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Equal Opportunity?

I have been thinking a lot about whether America has become hopelessly stratified by wealth, race, education and all sorts of barriers that make it

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Let Me Work

I’m on vacation in the Bay Area and I’m working. Today it’s a blog, business calls, thinking about options for TMW and Graff-Pinkert. I’m in

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Respect the Streak

Baseball fans love statistics because they tend to make the daily events seem more rational and orderly. We humans crave order and predictability, even when

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The Color of Law

It’s been 150 years since the end of the Civil War and 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act. However we still

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