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...child of insurance giant Prudential. Some of these may soon find themselves operating desks within their parents' branches. Says Head: "As far as Smile is concerned, [branches are] an option for the future." Emma Byrne, an Egg spokeswoman, notes that Zebank will offer its services in Paris' La Samaritaine store. To retain and attract customers the pure plays must keep offering new products. Smile is starting a brokerage service and may sell insurance. Egg has introduced an electronic bill-payment service, two savings plans and a loan offering. Its Shopping Zone uses other e-tailers to sell everything from computers...
...Michael Chiklis was nominated for his first year on FX's morally ambiguous cop drama (which should have gotten "Law & Order's" drama spot, but who are we kidding?). HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - a screamingly funny comedy of neuroses watched by approximately 15 people outside New York and LA, all of whom will write me angry e-mail for that remark - surprised everyone by getting a best-comedy nod, along with usual suspects...
...plenty to eat. The clothes were elegant, the kind of things one wears to the Paris Ritz, darling. The salons were small and intimate, the better to see the craftsmanship. But the gradual rotation of the old guard (out last season, Yves Saint Laurent; out this season, Oscar de la Renta at the house of Pierre Balmain) to the new (first John Galliano at Christian Dior, most recently Julien Macdonald at Givenchy) has transformed the week to one of pop stars, parties and product launches. The new-generation shows this season were full-fledged extravaganzas. John Galliano's platform shoes...
Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Dunster House. He holds dual Irish and American citizenship; this summer he has been working in Madrid and taking weekend trips to Segovia, La Rioja, Pamplona and Paris...
...sometimes the matter at hand lends itself only to those sorts of questions. Longing is concerned with these essential contradictions of existence, the difference between the witness and the subject, the gulf between two human beings. We spin myths of Mandalay and Shangri-la to transcend, if only in fan-tasy, the conditions that bind us. Even as we come together, find love, dare to dream, we suspect that love, like life itself, will eventually be broken. Kopperud's war-weary, war-loving journalist seeks refuge in the perfect consummation of dreams. He finds mirages...