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...installed by London-based curator Patrick Kinmoth. Many of Valentino's friends showed up for the opening, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Uma Thurman, and Karl Lagerfeld. "We have known each other for so long," Lagerfeld remarked as Valentino led him through the exhibit...
...addition to showing his glamourous work, the designer has virtually put the city of Rome on display. Following the exhibit, a dinner for 900 was held in the Temple of Venus, in front of the Colosseum. The famous Roman set designer, Dante Ferretti, created a breathtaking colonnade of columns lit from within. And on Saturday, Valentino will show his haute couture collection in the Baglivi and Incisa halls of the Monumental Complex of the Santo Spirito in Sassia, the oldest charitable institution of Rome, followed by a gala dinner in the Villa Borghese gardens. If this is 45, one guest...
...nonchemical addictions as well. Behaviors, from gambling to shopping to sex, may start out as habits but slide into addictions. Sometimes there might be a behavior-specific root of the problem. Volkow's research group, for example, has shown that pathologically obese people who are compulsive eaters exhibit hyperactivity in the areas of the brain that process food stimuli--including the mouth, lips and tongue. For them, activating these regions is like opening the floodgates to the pleasure center. Almost anything deeply enjoyable can turn into an addiction, though...
...many people as there used to be who are willing to buy the bonds private equity shops need to sell to finance big buyouts; a number of deals have been put off. Credit runs in cycles and this, it seems, might be the top. You might consider it exhibit A that the people most in tune with that cycle, those running firms like Blackstone, are deciding to sell some of their stake to the public. Companies usually go public to raise capital, but Blackstone hardly needs to float shares to find investors. Instead, the move is a way for executives...
...Even more important than responding to a specific campus crime is working to prevent it altogether—something Newman says is entirely possible given the wealth of warning signs that many shooters exhibit...