An interesting column from Melik Kaylan at Forbes, who spends some time following Mikheil Saakashvili during last week's UNGA, and gets into a debate with Owen Matthews about Russia's ambitions and the legitimacy of their current grievances. The fundamental question of the debate: does a NATO presence in the Ukraine or Georgia really actually pose a security threat to Russia, or only a defense against expansionism? We had the McCain-Obama debate on. At the bohemian Greenwich Village brownstone of our friend Ann Marlowe, the leading literary salonista of our time, Misha ate and watched and greeted a stream of well-wishers. Upstairs, Owen and I debated the Russia/Georgia matter. He had just penned a quasi-sympathetic large profile of Misha in Newsweek. I had just published a story in The Wall Street Journal, the first to detail the destruction of Georgian cultural sites during the recent invasion. I have said before in ...

Trading on NASDAQ, Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. is a leading lifestyle specialty retailer of everyday casual apparel, accessories, and footwear. As part of the Apparel Stores industry, the company has their corporate headquarters in Anaheim, California. Their store concept finds its roots in the youth culture and fashion trends of Southern California.

The company began in 1980 as a small surf shop in Newport Beach, California although under a different moniker. With California’s cooler winter seasons moving beach-goers off the beaches and into the malls, the surf shop moved there as well. They began opening surf shops in malls and by 1987 had 21 stores.

It was in 1989 when the company first expanded outside of California. They opened stores on the East Coast where they began to sell long pants and sleeves as appropriate to climactic conditions there. They began to sell bigger t-shirts and pants, baggy jeans and other

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