"Robert was scarred by L.A. Gear, " recalls Michael Rubin, chief of Global Sports, a Web sporting goods retailer.

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Those assets will be sold to a new holding company led by GSI founder and CEO Michael Rubin.

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Mr. MICHAEL RUBIN (Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute): Thanks for having me back.

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Michael Rubin, a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Michael Rubin, with the American Enterprise Institute, said there is no real impetus for the various factions to come together, especially if the U.S. commitment to Iraq is shaky.

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Lawyer Michael Rubin, who represented Mr Hart during the appeal, said the decision set a "wonderful precedent" and would help any athlete or other public figure protect their identity against unwanted commercial exploitation.

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These establishment foreign policy types claim to be "realists" - yet they advocate prescriptions that have no realistic chance whatsoever of durable success (see a powerful op.ed. in today's Wall Street Journal by Michael Rubin on the past and pending failures of their worldview).

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin were among those in attendance.

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