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Harvard's guards tried to loft passes into the paint to 6'5 senior center Melissa Johnson and her sister, 6'4 freshman center Sarah Johnson, but the Huskies' big players were doing a good job of fronting them...
...called him the rock-'n'-roll broker. His client list was more Melrose Avenue than Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Matt Damon, Michael Ovitz. For the club-hopping Giacchetto, the line between client and buddy was as thin as a supermodel. He put DiCaprio up in his SoHo loft and vacationed with Courtney Cox's family. He had a knack for wrapping himself in buzz. In a New York Times profile of Ovitz last May, Giacchetto dropped names the way most brokers drop bad stocks. "Get me Michael!" he reportedly shouted to an invisible assistant. "Get me Leo!" (Giacchetto...
...Speaking of things old and new, we've compiled a list. We're over Diego at the Loft and sticky pomade in Aaron's hair. We're over the construction of gender and other construction work including the Big Crane. We're over diaper bags and other ugly accessories including earrings. We're over Cosmopolitan martinis, tini bar and teeny tiny tankinis. We're over Diesel jeans and, more generally, conspicuous consumption. We're over Terry E. E. Chang despite her amazing contributions to the Groovy Train of yore. We're over the Shoot and moments of crisis, generally speaking...
Walk around the airy orange-and-yellow-hued loft of Rumpus Toys in New York City. Stick your hand down the throat of a plush Gus Gutz and remove his stuffed organs. Toy companies are supposed to be like this--creative places where adults dream up wacky stuff for kids. "I make the kinds of toys I love to play with," explains the 29-year-old founder, Laurence Schwarz, standing next to a showroom of Harry Hairballs, a cat whose stomach contains fish bones, slippers and hair balls. "We don't put this stuff through focus groups or watch kids...
...brand of hotel hipness. Trying to stay ahead of the curve he started, Schrager is adding 10 hostelries to the five he had been running. "It's a very capital-intensive business, which doesn't encourage many new ideas," says Schrager, sitting in his new, whitewashed loft offices on Manhattan's West Side, wearing (what else?) white pants and shirt. "But hotels are not just places to sleep. You're supposed to have fun there...