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...bought them all little fiddlesticks, which is like a lacrosse stick that you can play with in your pool,” said Mr. Molinari, Jeff’s father. “Then when we moved [back to New York, we moved] to Manhasset because of lacrosse, and I kind of pushed them that way… and they actually went for it, and then we got the family all involved...
...There was a very deep tradition of lacrosse [in Manhasset],” Mr. Molinari continued. “It had… a very good youth program where all the college guys who played would come back and raise their families, so there was a very good support for the town. At a young age, they already had great teachers in the sport...
...while, Del Vecchio kept returning to the company's history. When Brooks was on the verge of getting kicked out of the tony Americana Manhasset mall on Long Island, N.Y., he spent an entire day talking to the owners about the firm's heritage and convinced them that the quality of merchandise and service would return. And Brooks designers and merchants still travel frequently to the archives, which are kept by a company called the History Factory in Virginia. "There are so many ideas," says creative director Simon Kneen, "you have to pace yourself...
Tragedy struck Harvard Law School this spring break when second-year law student Shirin Shakir was killed in a white-water rafting accident in Cuzco, Peru. A native of Manhasset Hills, N.Y. and an alumna of Williams College, Shakir was 24. Shakir and fellow second-year law student Brendan J. Cooney were among six Law School students vacationing together in Peru over spring break. On March 31, the last day of the trip, the two decided to go white-water rafting down the Vilcanota River. Joining them were three other women and a male guide. Cooney said in interviews that...
...although dissociative identity disorder has an entry in the DSM-IV, psychology's official manual, it's still highly controversial. "I believe he believes he had all those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient's mental state...