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...when I did Woody's film and took a year off HBO, a girl in my office came in and suggested, "Why don't we start selling clothes on the web?" Because I'm totally into clothes and I know so many people and my friend has two Fred Segal stores in Los Angeles. I looked on the web and there's tons of cosmetic sites but there's no eclectic clothes sites. There's just Land's End, J Crew, GAP, but you know what you're going to get. We've taken younger designers and created this great...
...know I'm not the first to face this quandary. Laurie Segal, a mother of five (ages 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) who lives near me on Long Island, New York, remembers the time one daughter, then 18 months old, spilled something on her new shoe: "She said in a little, tiny, low voice, 'Oh sh__,' and my husband and I blamed each other...
...Segal, a social worker who happens to specialize in child development, said, "We became much more careful about what we say in front of the children." And if you slip up? "Tell them you made a mistake...
...have to do is behave in a mature way and not lose control in front of your children? That might work for a family like Segal's, where all the children had gone to bed nicely by 8:30 p.m. the other night, when I phoned her. But considering the circumstances in my household--I overheard my husband telling Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what...
...campaign. Beyond advertising, Forbes has kept his faithful marinated in daily e-mails targeted at their interests. The campaign has tried to re-create the old ward-politics feel, assigning "e-precincts" and "e-captains" to empower volunteers to gather supporters by e-mail across the U.S. Says Rick Segal, the Forbes Webmaster, who sits in on the campaign's strategy sessions: "How will we know if the Internet paid off? If Steve Forbes wins Iowa...