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...Scalise—who stopped playing lacrosse for Harvard at the end of last summer—rode minimally before joining the team this school year with the encouragement of Nick, a fellow member of the A.D. final club. Nearly everyone on the polo team—except Nick—had no experience with polo before joining. “Ah ha! Bravo! When I turn, come to me!” Even his dad doesn’t escape Nick’s eye: “Well done...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...gestational point - had a greater likelihood of giving birth to an autistic child than other women. "What would be involved here would be the mother's level of [the stress hormone] cortisol," says Purpura. "Between fetus and mother, the placenta acts as a very good barrier for maternal cortisol, except when the stress is extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fever Helps Autism: A New Theory | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...fashion's loftiest ranks, the concepts of luxury and discount go together about as well as navy and black, except in one rarefied setting: the sample sale. Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson set out to re-create that lite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilt-y Pleasures | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...actually that different except that you don't have the size issue. Once you have the concept, then very soon you have to get down to the details like what's the material like, what's the finishing like, what's all the metalwork like. When you do clothes, often it's made up of so many small decisions that in the end, they are like one very big decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Viktor and Rolf | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...course, we know now there was no actual work going on, either by Chais' New York people (i.e. Madoff), or by himself, except collecting money and distributing money, much like Madoff and Fairfield Greenwich, and all the other feeder funds. Chais' lawyer, Eugene Licker of Loeb & Loeb, was unavailable for comment. Ezra Merkin's lawyer, Andrew Levander of Dechert LLP, was also not available for comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madoff's Feeder Funds Stole My Retirement | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

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