Finance authority reviews sub- prime crisis
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Dr. Peter Linneman, the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania, visited Columbia Friday, December 7. He was the year's last of the Wachovia Executive Lecture Series at the Moore School of Business.
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Briefs
by John TempleLigon
      Moving on up Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A., Attorneys at Law, recently expanded to occupy both the fifth and sixth floors of the Carolina First Building at 1501 Main Street. Established in 1980, the firm has grown over the past five years from 24 attorneys to 32 and from 11 paralegals to 19.
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Mitch Journey of 10,000 Villages
Putting people to work is what 10,000 Villages is all about
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Mitch Journey was born in Nashville, Tenn., where his father was in the Marine Corps and his mother was a registered nurse. He also has an older anda younger brother, and both live in South Carolina. He attended the first grade in Orangeburg, S.C., and spent the next four years in Bowman School, ...
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Folks about town
      Stephanie Livesay received the Columbia International University's 2008 R.C. McQuilkin Leadership Scholarship. David Winkles was elected to his sixth term as president of the S.C. Farm Bureau Federation. Michael T. Lowman was named Builder Member of the Year by the Home Builders Association of G...
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