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The Insider’s credit cards are primed for the Robinsons-May coming to Irvine Spectrum Center

You read it here first (June 4) that a major department store was on its way to the expanded Irvine Spectrum Center. And now you’ve got the name: Robinsons-May. The Irvine Company is expected to announce this week that a 140,000-square-foot, two-level R-M will open in fall 2002. The store’s planned layout is being described as “non-mall” Fabled Mississippi trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs, scourge of tobacco companies, asbestos makers and HMOs, was scheduled to be in OC late last week visiting a couple of friends,cousin Bill Furlow (Furlow Corporate Communications) and Chapman U law dean Parham Williams, who was Scruggs’ law prof at Ole Miss back in the ’70s. Scruggs was to participate in a Chapman luncheon debate held for state judges The proposed HP-Compaq marriage has special meaning for Steve Spanier and Elaine Booth. “My wife and I met at Tandem, which was started by an HP & #233;migr & #233; who couldn’t get HP to do fault-tolerant computers,” recalls Spanier, an Irvine marketing consultant. “Of course, eventually Tandem was bought by Compaq, which has now been bought by HP. Just goes to show, I guess, that the Eagles were right,’You can check out, but you can never leave'”

. . . In town this week: Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, at the Hyatt Regency Irvine on Wednesday to address a luncheon sponsored by Claremont McKenna’s Res Publica Society. Call (909) 607-2856 Local Building Industry Association spokesman Michael Suydam has left to join the Bush administration in Washington, D.C. as a public affairs specialist for the Export-Import Bank Poetry in motion: The Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum has named a poet laureate: Benner T. Cummings, retired San Clemente High history teacher and surf and swimming coach, and author of “Down Along the Sunset” Anniversaries: No. 75 for OCB Reprographics, Irvine. No. 25 for the Patel family’s Tarsadia Hotels, Costa Mesa. No. 25, too, for Bill Anderson’s Genesis Audio & Video, Irvine. And No. 10 for the Register-sponsored Orange County Forum. A pundit-studded panel looks back, and forward, at the forum’s anniversary luncheon Nov. 6 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. For info, (949) 588-9884 Hold the phones: There’s a new edition to the OCBJ family,Jesse Gaytan, courtesy of Elizabeth and Jesus Gaytan UC Irvine has again made Computerworld magazine’s list of the top 25 “techno-MBA” programs in the U.S. Broadcaster Rex Hudler hosts the “Angels Among Us” black-tie dinner and concert Nov. 10 at the Sun Theater, Anaheim benefiting Team Up For Down Syndrome. Nothing shy about a “Wonder Dog” event: Admission is $150. The jocks on hand will include former Angels Hudler, Bobby Grich, Mark Langston and Jim Abbott and current star Garret Anderson. Sons of Champlin will perform. Call (714) 338-7383.

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