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...there were few objections when the upstart manager, Renzo Rosso, announced he wanted to swap out his group shares to become sole owner of Diesel. A modest farmer's son from outside Padua, Italy, with a textiles-trade-school diploma, Rosso, 50, is not your typical luxury-group CEO. Sure, he flies in private jets and frequents fashion shows, but most of the time he wears jeans or sweats, and his curly hairdo is more Peter Frampton than Bernard Arnault...
...with its well-sourced and carefully documented account of Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade and belligerent behavior during his DUI arrest on Pacific Coast Highway last week, upstart TMZ became legit. "It was definitely a watershed event," says Citron, a former Los Angeles Times entertainment industry reporter and editor who has also done stints as an executive with TicketmasterOnline, USA Network Interactive and Movielink. "That story gave us credibility because we were first and we were accurate. It introduced us, in a way that was positive, to people who hadn't heard of us." Even the publicists whose clients...
...brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement in his dead-heat primary campaign against the aristocratic antiwar upstart Ned Lamont. "Sometimes you work hard, and people forget," he said, thanking a straggly crowd of union leaders for remembering the picket lines he'd walked over the years. "My folks were working people. I grew up thinking that people who work deserve a fair deal. It takes government to ensure...
...Penny Press magazines contained a more attractive mix of posers, and I found myself spending much more time with each issue of, say, Variety Puzzles, than with Pencil Puzzles & Word Games. (Apparently, others did too. A few years ago, Penny Press took control of Dell - another example of an upstart engulfing and devouring a staid old American institution...
...arrived on Valentine’s Day, when Boston College wrested the Beanpot trophy away from Harvard, which lost, 2-0, despite its hosting privileges and a seven-year monopoly on the tournament hardware.In the ensuing weeks, though, the Crimson initiated the streak that vaulted it from underachiever to upstart and promised big things for 2007. “Looking back, everyone has a lot of positive things to take out of it,” Boe said. “As a senior class, we’re extremely happy with the way the season went, and for everyone...