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...book, in midair while flying from Los Angeles to New York City). As Monica huddles for a moment with her team of media and legal advisers, her mother Marcia Lewis brings in coffee and shows two visitors around the tidy 34th-floor apartment, with its panoramic views of Manhattan and Central Park. "It sounds corny," says Lewis, "but it's peaceful up here. We're above the fray...
...succeeded in part because consumers identify the man with the brand. His appearance in his own advertisements, his Manhattan duplex, his Colorado ranch, the vintage-car collection, the private jet are all as much an exercise in brand building as they are in high living. This approach has allowed him to expand his vision to market everything from suits to suitcases, sofas to soccer balls. This year he is even marketing extreme sportswear to the Gen X and Gen Y crowd, and older folk who want to feel that young. The Lauren reach includes 26 licensees who sell $4 billion...
Here's a scene that should warm the heart of any executive in the video-game industry. It's a muggy Manhattan morning late last June. Liam McLaughlin, 23, a full-time games bootlegger, opens the door of his Bleecker Street co-op to find three armed U.S. marshals dressed in SWAT gear, and four suits from the Interactive Digital Software Association, a sort of Pinkerton agency for games manufacturers. The marshals have a warrant. Can they come in and look at his game collection? McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles...
...Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel prizewinner; in Lafayette, Calif. Seaborg began his career in the 1930s in Berkeley. He led the research team that discovered plutonium and was the first living person to have an element, seaborgium, named for him. After helping build the Bomb on the Manhattan Project, Seaborg championed the peaceful use of atomic energy...
...Cost of one square foot of space in Manhattan's still to be finished 515 Park Avenue, a world-record high for an apartment building...