Word: garrards
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...long balls of his noggin all night. Chelsea's swarming defense slapped Crouch around, but they were constantly being pressured. Liverpool looked a good bet to find something before the night was over, although it happened a bit earlier than they might have expected. In the 22nd minute Steven Garrard's free kick from the left found Daniel Agger, making a run from the back, at the edge of the box. His shot beat Chelsea keeper Petr Cech cleanly, and the Kop exploded, chanting and taunting, like it knew something...
...DIED. GARRARD SMOCK JR., 86, third-generation Pullman porter who gained a measure of unexpected fame as one of the chief subjects of the book Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, about the black men who, in the Golden Age of train travel, found low-paying but long-term work--and deep respect in the black community--catering to the whims of passengers in Pullman sleeping cars; in Los Angeles. Among the riders for whom Smock shined shoes, cooked and ran errands were President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor...
Defining moment: They snapped up the stuffy British luxury-goods company Asprey & Garrard for a reported $150 million and enlisted Norman Foster to design the London flagship...
...industry's most successful IPOs. In 2001 Chou and Stroll cashed out their holdings in Hilfiger and a year later relinquished their co-chairman titles in order to branch out and invest in other brands. They had already bought the British luxury-goods firms Asprey and Garrard in 2000, and after unsuccessful runs at Valentino, Brooks Brothers and Calvin Klein, the partners went after Kors...
...bottom-line record is such that even if he wanted to take back control of Vivendi's American entertainment assets, as some have speculated, major shareholders would probably oppose it. Edgar has other things to keep him busy, anyway. He has taken a 40% stake in British jeweler Asprey & Garrard, hoping to expand the luxury-goods brand to shoes and other fashion accessories. His family members must surely hope they will still be able to afford to dress that...