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Near the peak of her company's success, Martha Stewart inadvertently summed up both the strength and the vulnerability of the empire she had built. At an advertising-industry conference in Detroit in 2001, she was speaking to a crowd of starstruck ad executives when somewhere in the crowd, a voice piped up with a fawning question. "Someone asked her, 'You dispense all this advice. Who taught you all these things? Who's your mentor?'" recalls Samir Husni, a magazine consultant who also spoke at the meeting. "She said, 'Me. Me. I did it all by myself...
...huge shoes to fill. The city of Los Angeles lost one of its biggest celebrities--7 ft. 1 in., 340 lbs., with size-22 sneakers--when the L.A. Lakers traded their indomitable center, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, to the Miami Heat last week. After the Lakers' surprising loss to the Detroit Pistons in the NBA finals last month and coach Phil Jackson's subsequent departure, Shaq packed his bags and said he wanted to "play for a team that's willing to win." (As opposed to all those fools who think the point is to lose.) So, in a power-sapping...
...first three minor league seasons in the Detroit Tigers organization, Birtwell was 12-8 with a 2.25 ERA while being used almost exclusively out of the bullpen. After earning recognition as the organization’s co-Pitcher of the Year in 2002, however, Birtwell pitched much of last season in pain with a frayed labrum that forced him to undergo corrective surgery last fall...
...getting to play every day so you can’t see where you’re at as a player”….Kenon Ronz ’03, a first-team All-Ivy pitcher two seasons ago, is struggling in the Detroit Tigers farm system, posting a 1-5 record and 5.68 ERA despite a trademark stellar strikeout-to-walk ratio of better than 4-to-1….rising junior Frank Herrmann is playing both ways for the NECBL’s Berkshire Dukes, posting a 2-1 record and a 2.38 ERA while also...
Kryzanowska, who was born in Detroit the only child of artist parents, has always led an active life. She spent her young years living on an orange plantation in Florida. "I was wild," she says. "I climbed trees and swung on grapevines, hanging upside down and going like Tarzan of the Apes from one vine to another...