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By John Temple Ligon Over coffee in the Capitol Cafe on Main Street, Republican John Cox took more than an hour to outline his campaign to snare his party's nomination for president. First and foremost, he is selling himself, his personal example of what America can nurture. More ...
Jasper Johns attended A. C. Moore Elementary School, the University of South Carolina, and served at Fort Jackson. By John Temple Ligon A record was set for South Carolina and for the world last week. A painting by a South Carolina artist, Jasper Johns, sold for the highest price paid for a work by a living artist. Chicago hedge-fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin and his wife, Anne, paid $80 million to buy Johns's More ... Help us find Jasper John's classmates Were you at A.C. Moore Elementary for the 1939-40 school year? Take any art classes with Jasper Johns? More ... Briefs by John Temple Ligon Public finance Standard & Poor's sent a credit affirmation letter to Columbia in late September. The city's general obligation bonds were rated "AA." The top rating, the score that brings the city the lowest interest rate in borrowing through general obligation bonds, is "AAA." More ... South Carolina must modernize investments to compete Commentary by Kevin Hall It's been more than half a century since Nobel Prize winning economist Harry Markowitz pioneered the field of modern portfolio management, proving that diversification reduces risk and maximizes reward. More ... Folks about town Karen Luchka Gieselman and Jennifer Sease , recently joined the law firm of Fisher & Phillips LLP. More ... |
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