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Soon after buying Brooks Brothers in late 2001, Claudio Del Vecchio took a trip to the warehouse that keeps the company's archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history?especially when you're talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford's Theatre, F.D.R. the cape he donned at Yalta, Fred Astaire the neckties he used as belts and generations of men the suits they wore to their first jobs on Wall Street...
...they're called there, "the frozen Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the "popular" genres. He riffs on them, toys with them, steals their best tricks, passes them notes in class, etc. In Gentlemen of the Road (Del Rey; 204 pages)--which appears a scant, almost show-offy six months after Policemen's Union--he achieves something like consummation. He goes...
...it’s scarier than any “Final Destination” incarnation to come your way. The flick’s visual tricks aim to make you feel like you’re on as much mescaline as the characters played by Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. After being subjected to two hours of director Terry Gilliam’s headache-inducing antics though, you may wish that you had actually popped a few tabs yourself. For legal reasons, The Crimson cannot officially condone recreational drug use. We can, however, publish an absurd drinking game meant...
They helped Leo, their friend's father, fight the fire for an hour and a half, using hoses. Then, when things seemed to be damped down, the friends helped Leo drive out two of his three expensive cars to safety in Del Mar. On the way back out, they could see the wind gusts kicking up the embers, which were blowing everywhere. As they were leaving the canyon area, they saw another house go up in flames. "The fire was fully blazing," says Gudim. "Every window of the house...
...back on land later on Monday, it was all seriousness. Gudim and several of his friends had been evacuated from their homes in Rancho Santa Fe. They moved to Del Mar, where they "chilled" at the apartment of Samuels and his roommates Jeff Stumm and Gordon Cunliffe, both 23. But the friends wanted to check up on the homes of their friends and neighbors. So they decided to head back...