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...generation of hipster parents who came of age going to touring music festivals like Lollapalooza, Warped and Ozzfest and who would be willing to pay to give their kids the same sort of experience. DuFine, a former Polygram executive who started her career at MTV, and her business partner, David Codikow, manage the rock band Velvet Revolver and helped put together the first two Down from the Mountain bluegrass and country-music tours. But it was DuFine's toddler daughter who planted the seed of Jamarama, innocently asking why she couldn't see all her favorite bands at the same...
Still, Rob Light, head of music and a managing partner at Creative Artists Agency, has no doubt that other producers will try to emulate Jamarama. "When I was a kid, my parents would say, 'Run outside and play with your friends. I'll see you in four or five hours,'" he says. "That doesn't happen anymore in America. We've become a society that has to create environments in which kids can play." They certainly play hard at Jamarama, running from one sponsor-branded activity to another in the lobby and dancing in the aisles. "By the time...
...Mittals quickly moved on - and up. They belong to the Marwari caste, well-known in India for being traders and moneylenders who figure prominently in the leading business houses of India. The family left for Calcutta, a center of Marwari activity, where father Mohan Mittal became a partner in a steel company. Lakshmi graduated with a business degree from the élite St. Xavier's College in 1969 and joined his father's firm before branching out on his own. "He was very strong in numbers," recalls Sisir Bajoria, a fellow Xavier's student. Mittal split from his father...
...cannot let them have this issue.'" Indeed, top Bush aides, including Karl Rove and the Secretaries of Labor, Education and Commerce, began lobbying internally for some sort of presidential initiative. Bush aides say the indispensable player in moving the package to the presidential podium was Bush's workout partner and close friend former Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, who made it a crusade after a fellow Texan on the National Academies committee handed him the report. "This is like Sputnik," Evans tells TIME. "We need to give this the same focus and energy...
...pages) a better book? McInerney's eye is indisputably keen--witness such period moments as the dinner where the party favors are prescriptions for the antianthrax drug Cipro. And the book isn't starved for R-rated action: the two couples respond to the crisis with vigorous spasms of partner swapping...