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...Louis Roederer champagne (maker of Cristal) to Timberland boots--that have flourished once an urban, largely African-American audience embraced them. But more than any of these crossover brands, M&N has triumphed because of a single unlikely hero. "I consider it a miracle that Reuben fell into my lap. He deserves all the credit," says company owner Peter Capolino, 58, a pale, bespectacled Barry Manilow fan who now chums around with Jay-Z, Shaquille O'Neal and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony...
Washington changed in those next few hours. The U.S., which had assumed scientific pre-eminence, had been beaten in the opening lap of the space race. Before the night was over the Russians had fueled themselves with vodka and stood curbside in front of their embassy, staring into the night sky, singing and cheering...
...courtroom two weeks ago, a 67-year-old retiree named Nguyen Thi Vinh professed renewed faith in the party and said she came to the trial "so I can tell my children." Well, that was one reason. The other was evident in the stack of colored papers in her lap: Nguyen was hawking lottery tickets...
...green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...
...curved surfaces, but we can also swag it like a textile to provide shading and cut out glare on windows," says Rick Haldenby, director of the school. So theoretically the curves of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Sydney Opera House could be covered, as could lap-tops and cell phones, to generate their own power. The future, it seems, will be jeanetically modified. - By Robin Banerji