JAMES FERRAGUT
Ferragut: Chapman unjustly reviled 
Trashing public figures has become one of America’s favorite pastimes, a sick, but pleasurable exercise in making us not feel so bad about ourselves.
By James Ferragut , October 18, 2009
The ‘gap’ is more insidious
Donald Fisher died last week. Donald and his wife, Doris, founded a mom and pop store called The Gap in 1969. The only product The Gap sold was blue jeans. Owning a store that carried only one category of clothing was a new concept; it changed the business model of retailing. Niche retailing and niche marketing were born with The Gap. The Gap now has more than 3,700 stores worldwide.
By James Ferragut , October 11, 2009
Ferragut: Delve inside ‘the man’
It is ironic that most of the baby boomers who identified with the Woodstock Nation have become replicas of the generations we were rebelling against.
By James Ferragut , August 23, 2009
Ferragut: Survival,prayers on trail
I wanted the experience of a hardcore mountain-backpacking trip.
By James Ferragut , August 16, 2009
Ferragut: Nation’s promise is ageless
My grandparents Andrea Ferraguto and Marie Scala arrived in America on March 20, 1911, on a ship called the Canopic. They left their homeland in Sicily for a magical land called America, a place where anything was possible. They married in 1917 and settled in Boston’s West End, the Italian conclave.
By James Ferragut , July 05, 2009
Ferragut: Fargo showed ’em how
By James Ferragut , April 05, 2009
Winter: our little secret
You heard it for an entire week: “It’s cold outside, brother,” or whatever characterization you heard or uttered about the recent inescapable, hideously cold weather that descended on us this winter. It was the talk of the town.
By James Ferragut , January 25, 2009
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