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Gucci has been on a much hillier path. After years of mismanagement by the Gucci family, the company finally went public in 1995, and its fortunes began to rise like hemlines. With the help of 36-year-old American designer Tom Ford, CEO and president Domenico De Sole transformed Gucci from the butt of jokes about men who wear loafers to a label both Seventh Avenue and Wall Street adore. (Ford's first famous look: velvet hiphuggers and a satin shirt.) Incontrovertible evidence of how far it has come: Helen Hunt wore Gucci to the Oscars this year...
...Tom, 24, a husky blond kid who says he has been drug free for 17 days, is fresh out of jail for stealing a handgun he planned to sell for drug cash. The gun belonged to his girlfriend's father, who happened to be a deputy sheriff. "How dumb can you get?" Tom asks. After flashing a driver's license photo to show how much thinner he was in his meth days, Tom effuses about his newfound love of Christ. A few minutes later he reaches into his jeans jacket and pulls out a scorched, homemade glass crank pipe...
Huddled on the ground against a wall, Justin and Kim, 24 and 18, scoff at Tom's pipe. They're bangers--they shoot their crank--and anyone who does different is crazy, they say. "We've been off it 11 days," says Justin. "I'm trying to get my tolerance back down so it won't take me so much to get spun out," he explains. As narcotics go, crank is famously cheap--a $20 bundle keeps you buzzing for up to 12 jaw-grinding, heart-pounding hours--but frequent users still have trouble affording it. For one thing, they...
...former mayor of Los Angeles; in the city he governed during the stormy '60s. Yorty, a master at grandstanding, flip-flopped from liberal Democrat to hard-line conservative. Urging "integration without inundation," he inspired the most ire with his racial views. After three turbulent terms, he was unseated by Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor...
Soon after, the family asked Martin, a prominent Washington defense lawyer and former top prosecutor, to help find a replacement for Ginsburg. Lewinsky quietly left Los Angeles and arrived in Washington to interview several candidates. One of them was Tom Green, a steely litigator who was impressed at the trenchant questions Monica directed at him a source close to Green said. But the Lewinsky family had in mind a team concept, which Green resisted. Stein won over the Lewinskys partly because they liked the idea of bringing on board someone who had been an independent counsel. Just before noon...