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Just four months earlier, he had been hustling from one Philadelphia hair salon to the next, selling pound cake to women while they were being coiffed. Now Reuben Harley was reclining on a black leather couch in the midtown Manhattan recording studio of hip-hop mogul Sean (P. Diddy) Combs. The unlikely pair chatted about business, music and, most importantly, jerseys--the classic models that sports legends like Julius Erving, Nolan Ryan and Jackie Robinson used to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rag Trade: How Old Jerseys Got Hot | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...playgrounds. He enjoyed cooking, so he started a catering business. Harley would wake up at 3 a.m. to prepare lasagna, chicken and desserts in his grandmother's kitchen. Then, at lunchtime, he would head out to beauty salons and other local spots to sell meals and slices of cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rag Trade: How Old Jerseys Got Hot | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...appears to a "painfully average" office drone in the guise of a fat man floating on air. The joke is that God appears as a fat man. Snooze-ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start to get interesting when the teacher sits down with an attractive therapist. Then, abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Losers Win | 3/21/2003 | See Source »

...That was just the icing on the cake,” O’Neill said. He missed the champagne party, but turned the thesis...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Despite Trials, Hist. and Lit. Concentrators Finish Theses | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...year we’ve had little successes all over the place, and getting second at Ivies was just icing on the cake,” Bright said. “Next year’s our year...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Finishes Second at Ivies | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

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