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...many stargazers who attended the first week's events and collected celebrities like pins: Simpson, David Hasselhoff, Bruce and Demi, Arnold, Ali, Chelsea--who, bless her heart, went to everything--and her parents. Royalty mixed with Olympian and, in the case of Kuwaiti swimmer S.A.B.S. Sultan Alotaibi, who finished 37th out of 37 in the 200-m individual medley, were one and the same. Perhaps the most interesting encounter occurred at the Olympic Village, when U.S. team handball circle runner Dave DeGraaf was followed into the lavatory by men in suits. "Mr. President, how are you?" asked DeGraaf. "Fine...
...event spanned the whole afternoon. About 20 people spoke and read from the first-hand testimony of Tibetans tortured in Chinese prisons. Fifteen local Tibetans chanted. A statement by the Dalai Lama composed especially for the occasion (the 37th anniversary of the March 10, 1959 uprising) was read. Several Tibetan monks spoke, as did the ex-president of the Tibetan Youth Congress. We collected over 400 signatures on petitions...
...other day I met a fellow known as "Wad Master" Steve Baldwin, who works right here at Time Inc. and specializes in creating wads (Doomspeak for new levels). Steve has created an elaborate wad that looks exactly like the 37th floor of the Time & Life Building. The Wad Master, like me, is a mild-mannered, bespectacled guy with a crayon picture on his desk drawn by a young daughter. But he has it all figured out. "Why watch Rambo when you can be Rambo?" he asks. What I want to know is how to get out of Level...
...happy about that turnaround as Nemir Kirdar, 59, the Iraqi-born founder and president of Investcorp, the Arab investment boutique that engineered Gucci's turnaround. Shod in black reptile-skin Gucci loafers, Kirdar sat confidently in his company's New York City office--occupying the entire 37th floor of a Park Avenue high-rise--contemplating Gucci's renaissance. After Investcorp bought the company in the late 1980s, Gucci lost so much money some feared it would go bust. "There was a time," says Kirdar, "when--in the minds of several of our clients as well as some...
...Crimson finished sixth at the meet, improving on its 15th-place finish the previous year. A tight pack of Crimson harriers followed Carswell; Walsh, Shearer, Bundle and freshman Jaime Bianchi placing 34th, 35th, 37th and 43rd, respectively...