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Corner Office: Never Duck Tough Questions, Says Drugstore.com’s Chief
“You have to be transparent as a leader and you have to be willing to take criticism openly,” says Dawn Lepore, the chairwoman and C.E.O. of Drugstore.com. She is also a director of eBay and The New York Times Company.
The Boss: Still Minding the Mill
The Search: How to Rebound From a Wrong Career Choice

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The Appraisal: Not Grumbling About Rent by 2nd Ave. Subway Construction
For some extra space, Ashlee Reilly was willing to endure a view of a so-called muck house in her studio on Second Avenue at 70th Street. The 500-square-foot apartment is $350 a month below the average price for a studio in the neighborhood.
Where the Secrets Were Kept
In a mansion on Central Park West and 85th Street, a secret room is revealed.
Big Deal: Big Deal - Brazil Booms, and Brokers Smile
Jeisa Chiminazzo, a 26-year-old model, in the TriBeCa loft she bought for $1.65 million in 2009.

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Ryan Reynolds selling home he bought with Scarlett Johansson
The actor puts the house in Los Feliz hills on the market at $3.65 million. Reynolds and Johansson were divorced last year.

Actor Ryan Reynolds has listed for sale the Los Feliz hills house he bought with his then-wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, in 2010.
Home of the Week: Steel-and-glass house in the Hollywood Hills
The Michael Gantert Residence, one of the last properties designed by Case Study architect Pierre Koenig, takes full advantage of its dramatic viewpoint.

Set on a ridge in the Hollywood Hills, the Michael Gantert Residence takes full advantage of its dramatic viewpoint. The cantilevered steel-and-glass house, built in the early '80s, was one of the last designed by Case Study architect Pierre Koenig.
Builders highlight often-hidden costs of buying a foreclosed home
Builders say the costs of their houses are built into the price, but fixing up a foreclosure can cost thousands of dollars extra.

Home builders are switching tactics and confronting head-on one of their biggest nemeses: foreclosed houses that not only lure buyers away with deeply discounted prices but simultaneously depress the appraisal values of newly built homes.

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Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’

Gov. Pat Quinn took his case for a budgetary crash diet directly to state lawmakers Wednesday, pushing a grim assortment of prison closures and spending cuts in a spending plan that he said was built around “hard realities.”
Fewer restaurants interested in shorter Taste of Chicago

Chicago restaurants are not exactly chomping at the bit to participate in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to shrink and revamp the Taste of Chicago. Only 40 restaurants applied to participate for the five-day festival, prompting the city to extend Tuesday’s deadline until Friday.
How Girl Scouts helped her ‘become person I am’

On Mar. 12, 1912, widowed socialite Juliette Gordon Low founded the American Girl Guides — later the Girl Scouts — with 18 girls in Savannah, Ga. Its mission: Building self-reliance and citizenship. In 1917, the first African-American troop was started. The Girl Scouts stayed segregated until a strong ’50s integration push led the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956 to call it “a force for desegregation.” Barbara Wilbourne, 82, of Savannah, joined one of the first African-American troops there in 1941. Her original pin, membership card and a vintage photo of her as a troop leader (accompanying this article) …

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