Walter, together with the love of his life, Leonore, transformed their corner of the California desert by making decisions with an unswerving commitment to philanthropy and the eventual goal of transforming the estate into a retreat for world peace. (Leonore died in 2009.) Now that dream is about to take shape.
The British strategy is to stay out of the fight, knowing that the two-speed Europe camp would love to push Britain into the dunce's cornerwith Ireland and try to marginalise both.
"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in lovewith music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
