We talked to Harvey L. Pitt, who ran the SEC from 2001 until 2003, one of the most tumultuous times in its history, about the future of the market's main watchdog.

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Ross opened the 5, 000-square-foot store six years ago when he moved to L.A. from Toronto, where he ran a similar shop.

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O. of New Heights was Dennis L. Meyer, an evangelical-Christian activist and former schoolteacher who ran a prison ministry.

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