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...Vestis Council Abigail M. Baird ’08 said she saw another advantage to the clothing swap. “It’s a really great way to experiment with how you express yourself,” she said. —Staff writer Diane J. Choi can be reached at dchoi@fas.harvard.edu...
...could have benefited from acknowledging that pornography was created to fulfill an impulse that humans already had. “She doesn’t take into account the reciprocal relationship between theconsumers and creators of pornography,” he said. —Staff writer Diane J. Choi can be reached at dchoi@fas.harvard.edu...
...strategy involved sidelining Choo, who maintains a bespoke business and is no longer part of the company; relentlessly supporting his niece by marriage Sandra Choi, whose designs have been key to the brand's success; and learning the language of business along the way. A partnership was formed with Equinox Luxury Holdings in 2001, and by 2004, when Lion Capital acquired the majority shareholding, Jimmy Choo was valued at $207 million. Earlier this year, Jimmy Choo was acquired by private-equity fund TowerBrook for $379 million. Mellon is thought to have netted about $49.2 million from the deal, the majority...
...Choi belongs to SK Telecom T1, a video-game team whose 20 members practice and live together in two shared luxurious apartments in a skyscraper in Seoul's financial district. For some 350 days a year, the young men wake at 10 a.m, jog for an hour, and then hit their computers or PCs, taking an hour off for lunch and another for dinner, and finally calling it a day at 3 a.m. (The gamers claim they play at their best just after midnight.) They don't spend much time outside their building, and when they do leave...
...Choi is probably Korea's best-known gamer, having clinched the gold medal at last year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky...