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  1. company town
    My CEO Can Beat Up Your CEOFINANCE • Lehman CEO Dick Fuld, nicknamed the “Gorilla” on the Street, didn’t do so well when he picked a fight with another father at his son’s hockey game. [Trader Daily via DealBreaker] • Paul Wolfowitz promotes his girlfriend at the World Bank, and his colleagues want him out. [CNNMoney] • The world’s top earner in the financial sector: reclusive ex–Enron trader John Arnold, who netted almost $2 billion shorting natural gas. [The Guardian]
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    Naked Law Student’s Ex-Boyfriend Tries to Keep Low ProfileLAW • An ex-boyfriend of the nude-video Brooklyn Law chick appeared briefly in the video with her, and he hopes his employer doesn’t find out. Talking to the press is a proven way of maintaining anonymity. [NYDN] • Oh, boy! It’s omnibus-hearing day in the Aaron Charney case! We expect hot cross-motion action. [Above the Law] • Two loud and zealous attorneys, Michael S. Washor and Michael F. Vecchione, are out-shouting each other at a judicial corruption trial in Brooklyn. [NYT]
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    Advertisers Flee Imus FiascoMEDIA • Advertisers ditch Imus faster than you can say “Rutgers basketball” — Proctor & Gamble is out, along with Staples and Bigelow Tea. Considering Imus’s show generates 25 percent of revenue for WFAN, this isn’t looking good. We’ll see what happens when the Rutgers basketball team meets up with him. [WSJ] and [NYT] • SNL producer Lorne Michaels is frustrated with NBC’s vigilante legal department for removing network material from YouTube. [NYO] • Newish Times editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal is embracing the Web in ways his predecessors have not. Anyone want a TimesSelect column? [NYO]
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    Co-ed Naked Brooklyn Law StudentsLAW • A third-year Brooklyn Law School student has been identified as a woman being spanked and holding gavels up to her breasts in the Playboy TV show Naked Happy Girls. [NYDN] • Was Aaron Charney just afflicted by Sullivan & Cromwell’s general malaise? The firm ranked 60th on a satisfaction survey of midlevel associates in New York. [New York Law Journal via Above the Law] • Judicial paradox: New York Chief Justice Judith Kaye says she’s prepared to sue after Albany failed to deliver on judicial pay raises. [New York Law Journal]
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    Bravo Makes Tim Gunn WorkFASHION • Tim Gunn will carry on for another season of Project Runway. Bravo executives can now breathe. [Downtown Darling] • Vogue’s May issue spotlights the ten new top models, including Jessica Stam, Chanel Iman, Coco Rocha, and Agyness Deyn. [Fashionologie] • Henry Holland knockoffs continue to flood the market. The culprit this time: Urban Outfitters. [Fashionista]
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    Burt Neuborne Still Fighting for FeesLAW • Holocaust survivors continue to dispute Burt Neuborne’s millions in legal fees, despite a judge’s call for a truce. [New York Law Journal] • When you sue your law firm for giving you bad advice, the attorney-client privilege is gone, ruled a Manhattan appeals court in a 4-1 decision. [New York Law Journal] • The future of Diet Coke is at stake! The Equal v. Splenda trial starts on Monday. [NYT]
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    ‘Times’ Gay Mafia Underground Even to its MembersMEDIA • Ben Brantley, identified by Out as part of the Times’s “gay mafia,” claims he didn’t even know some other colleagues listed were gay. The first rule of the gay mafia … [WWD] • Ed Bradley wins a posthumous Peabody Award for his 60 Minutes pieces on the Duke rape case. [Peabody Awards] • Larry King wants to keep going for another ten years and then pass his show along to Ryan Seacrest. At which point it might actually get softer. [NYT]
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    Kate Moss’s Topshop Collection Goes OnlineFASHION • At last! Take a look at Kate Moss’s Topshop collection. [Racked] • Gap ups the ante on high-low designer collaborations, teaming up with Doo.Ri, Thakoon, and Rodarte. [Fashion Week Daily] • Set your DVR to Cinemax on April 30 to glimpse rare footage of Helmut Newton at work. [Radar via Fashionista]
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    Giuliani Asks Press to Back Off His Third WifeMEDIA • Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani asks the media to lay off his wife. Media laughs to itself and continues writing. [WCBS-TV via Mediabistro] • In an effort to make viewers stick around for commercials, Fox will experiment with running short programming clips during the break. [WSJ] • The entire Harper’s archive is online, a cornerstone of the magazine’s relaunched Website. [Harper’s]
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    Investment Banks Mull New Trading FloorsFINANCE • JP Morgan, Lehman, and Merrill are in talks with developers to build new trading floors in Manhattan. [Bloomberg] • Donald Trump set a new low last night, defeating WWF owner Vince McMahon in a “Battle of the Billionaires.” [AP via Yahoo] • The SEC celebrates April Fools’ Day with a prank press release about new disclosure rules. [Financial Times via MSNBC]
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    Law-School Rankings LeakedLAW • The U.S. News 2008 law-school rankings were somehow leaked. Yale’s still No. 1, but Harvard and Stanford swapped this year to be two and three, respectively. [Law School Discussion via Legal Blog Watch] • If you’re looking for a good M&A lawyer, wait till they all come back from the Corporate Law Institute at Tulane. [DealBook/NYT via WSJ] • Seyfarth Shaw finally ups associate pay to match other New York firms. As one partner said back in February, “We don’t follow all the other firms over the cliff like lemmings. We wait, think about it, discuss, and then jump off the cliff.” [Above the Law and Above the Law]
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    Allegra Versace Seeks Treatment for Anorexia FASHION • Allegra Versace, daughter of Donatella and heir to the fashion empire, is being treated for anorexia. [NYP] • The ever persistent rumors of Hedi Slimane leaving Dior Homme keep swirling. Slimane has let his contract go unsigned for nearly a year. [WWD via Flypaper] • Kate Moss picked close friend Irina Lazareanu as the face of her new Topshop collection. Lazareanu, incidentally, used to be the drummer of Pete Doherty’s band, Baby Shambles. [British Vogue]
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    Want a Raise? Move to LondonFINANCE • Another point for London: U.K. traders average salaries and bonuses 50 percent higher than their U.S. counterparts. [Bloomberg] • Everyone has a theory about why Goldman and J.P. Morgan were shut out of Blackstone Group’s IPO, but who’s right? [Deal Journal/WSJ] • Ernst & Young was censured and sanctioned by the SEC on Monday for alleged violations of auditor-independence rules. This was the second slap against the accounting firm in nearly three years. [AP via Forbes]
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    Ad Agencies Better Figure Out the Internet Right QuickMEDIA • Nike abandons its longtime ad agency Wieden + Kennedy to search for a more digital-savvy firm; Madison Avenue fears its own Internet ignorance. [WSJ] • Has Tribune Co. finally settled on Sam Zell as a buyer? [WSJ] • Sharing a Daytime Emmy with another winner? The National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences is charging $350 for a second statuette. [Variety via Mediabistro] • Life magazine is dead for the third time. Time Inc. announced today that it will discontinue the Life Sunday newspaper supplement on April 20. [Time Inc.]
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    Aaron Charney Wants Your StoryLAW • Do you know anything about the Aaron Charney case? His lawyers want to hear your story. [Above the Law] • GE’s in-house council cuts 44 firms from its preferred provider’s list, including Paul, Hastings and Sherman & Sterling. [Corporate Counsel] • Anyone want to buy a giant legal publisher? ALM is up for sale. [Legal Blog Watch]
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    Sullivan & Cromwell’s Silent PartnerLAW • Is Sullivan & Cromwell partner Stephen Kotran the quiet hero in the Charney case? [Above the Law] • Department of Justice e-mails recall high-school girlfriends and Raging Bull. [Radar] • Justice Anthony Kennedy recuses himself from a case involving Credit Suisse because his son is a managing director there. So why didn’t that come up last December when Kennedy was involved in the decision to grant review? [Legal Times]
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    Janice Dickinson Booted From Fashion WeekFASHION • Janice Dickinson’s slurred antics get her banned from all IMG fashion events, including New York Fashion Week. [Fashionista] • Leave your dancing shoes at home. The Costume Institute is scaling back this year’s gala to just dinner, no after-party. [Fashion Week Daily] • Jil Sander’s moving out of the 57th Street flagship store. Moving in? Miu Miu. [The Shophound]
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    Jim Cramer, Manipulator?FINANCE • Mad Money host Jim Cramer (and New York columnist) recalls his good old days of stock manipulation. [YouTube via NYP] • Activist shareholder Evelyn Y. Davis demands that the board of Goldman Sachs stop distributing stock options immediately. [DealBook/NYT] • Wannabe buyer attacks Smith & Wollensky CEO, claiming that accepting another, lower bid would personally benefit Alan Stillman. [Crain’s]
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    Gareth Pugh Dazzles But Doesn’t SellFASHION • Gareth Pugh, the darling of London Fashion Week, has yet to turn his critical acclaim into commercial success — he hasn’t sold one dress. [British Vogue] • Pete Doherty continues his rise from junkie rocker to fashion “It” boy as he graces the cover of this month’s Vogue Homme. [WWD] • St. John’s abandons its youth outreach program — sexier, fitted clothing modeled by Angela Jolie — and returns to its conservative, older-woman roots. [LAT]
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    CBS Sports Understands the Kids and the YouTubeMEDIA • CBS Sports launched an NCAA Tournament channel on YouTube yesterday. Not everyone’s afraid of the Web. [MediaWeek via mediabistro.com] • But things aren’t as good over at CBS Radio, where CEO Joel Hollander is letting his contract lapse after disagreements with Les Moonves. [NYP] • Starting this weekend, you can add the Sunday Times of London magazine to the pile of things you don’t have time to read. [WWD]
  21. intel
    Bush-Cousin Judge Won’t Be Investigated for Car Crash That Killed New Haven CopA federal judge who is George W. Bush’s cousin killed a New Haven, Connecticut, police officer in a traffic accident in October, and this afternoon New Haven police decided not to pursue criminal charges. Judge John Mercer Walker Jr., a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is first cousin to former President George H.W. Bush — they share a grandfather, George Herbert Walker — and first cousin once removed to the current president. On October 17, in what a New Haven police spokeswoman termed “difficult weather conditions,” the 66-year-old Walker was driving an SUV that struck 38-year-old Officer Daniel Picagli, a seventeen-year veteran of the New Haven police department.
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    Notes Go Missing in Charney CaseLAW • Gallion & Spielvogel is drawn into Aaron Charney case when notes the firm kept during a settlement conference are destroyed. [Soloway via Above the Law] • State Chief Judge Judith Kaye asks business leaders to lobby for judicial pay raises. [Crain’s] • Harvard Law tops the list of 25 leading schools based on the success of its graduates. [Law Dragon via Above the Law]
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    How Much Is Mike Bloomberg Worth?FINANCE • Will new accounting rules force a clearer picture of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s net worth? [Breaking Views via WSJ] • Two of the thirteen people recently indicted for insider trading were Long Island football heroes. [Newsday] • Students graduating from the country’s leading MBA programs can command starting salaries over $180,000. [Bloomberg]
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    Weinstein Goes from Film to FashionFASHION • As rumored, film producer Harvey Weinstein bought Halston. [Reuters via CNNMoney] • Ralph Lauren will be honored with the CFDA’s first-ever “American Fashion Legend Award.” [British Vogue] • Sarah Jessica Parker to launch her own line, Bitten. [The Daily]
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    Giant Bonuses for Former Clerks Make Judges Feel Even WorseLAW • Associate pay raises are pretty good, but $200,000 signing bonuses for former Supreme Court clerks are even better. [Slate] • Ben Rosenberg starts work today as chief trial counsel for the New York State attorney general’s office. His first task is to win back some of Dick Grasso’s money from the NYSE. [Law Blog/WSJ] • Lawyers who play Second Life are bringing their real legal expertise to this artificial world. [ABA Journal via Legal Blog Watch]
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    NYSE President-To-Be Better Watch His BackFINANCE • In the ongoing war between man and machine at the NYSE, incoming Exchange president says he doesn’t want “five guys named Vinnie” completing his trades. [NYP] • Operation Spamalot: SEC suspends trading on 35 stocks promoted in recent spam campaigns. [NYT] • Ivan Boesky slated to appear in the can’t-believe-it’s-not-out-already sequel to Forrest Gump. [/Film via DealBreaker]
  27. the morning line
    The Perfect Firetrap • Yesterday’s lethal Bronx fire was a perfect storm of human error: faulty wiring, two dead smoke alarms, no fire escape, the tenants’ panicked attempt to deal with the flame themselves, and a tardy rescue truck. [NYT] • Look who’s back in business: Former mayor Ed Koch will head a commission that will review, and help reform, the state comptroller’s office. Also on the commission: Tom Suozzi, the would-be Spitzer, and the AFL-CIO chief. We’re getting serious “shadow government” vibes. [amNY] • Mathieu Eugene, who beat nine opponents for a City Council seat, is demanding a revote. Despite his decisive victory, Eugene can’t take office: He flouted the residency requirement by living in Canarsie before the election. Meanwhile, leaderless East Flatbush shockingly does not descend into anarchy. [NYDN] • In a Law & Order–worthy case of creative definition of jurisdiction, the Manhattan D.A. is indicting a Brazilian congressman, Paulo Maluf. Maluf has never been in New York, but his money sure was: $11.6 million of it, all allegedly stolen and funneled through a Fifth Avenue bank. [MetroNY] • Speaking of Law & Order: The community-board meeting on renaming a midtown intersection the Jerry Orbach Corner turned into meta-farce when Sam Waterston showed up to address the surly board. The vote ended in hung jury. [NYT]
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    Heatherette Honcho Throws Weirdly Normal Birthday PartyFASHION • Heatherette designer Traver Rains turned 30! And, apparently, his “Wild West” surprise party started on time and everyone invited actually got inside. [Fashionista] • Calvin Klein has high hopes that CK in2u will replicate the success of CK One. [NYT] • Giorgio Armani will design uniforms for Russell Crowe’s Australian rugby team. [British Vogue]
  29. intel
    The Check Went to the MaleWhat does it look like when a Timesman buys a sex slave? Well, we don’t know, because we haven’t seen Nick Kristof’s Cambodian receipts. But we do know what it looks like when a Timesman lends someone out of prostitution. As part of the legal processes set in motion by Kurt Eichenwald’s December 2005 investigative series on online child porn, the $2,000 check he wrote to Justin Berry was subpoenaed. Here it is. (Click on it for a larger version.) —Debbie Nathan Earlier: ‘Times’ Prostitute Rescuer Eichenwald, in Testimony, Says He Went ‘Off Deep End’
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    ‘Times’ Prostitute Rescuer Eichenwald, in Testimony, Says He Went ‘Off the Deep End’Former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald was in an Ann Arbor, Michigan, courtroom this morning, a witness in a child-porn prosecution captioned State of Michigan v. Kenneth Gourlay. But when Eichenwald took the stand, it could have been renamed “$2,000 Check v. Journalism 101” — and Eichenwald’s testimony showed he knows he broke the rules. Earlier this week, the Times disclosed in an editors’ note that Eichenwald had “loaned” $2,000 to 18-year-old Justin Berry, the subject of a controversial series Eichenwald published in December 2005, which led to a congressional hearing about the danger of Webcams to kids, and to charges against several gay men accused of molesting Berry and helping him manage his porn sites. Eichenwald and the Times had previously disclosed reporting irregularities — that Eichenwald spent several weeks in contact with Berry without disclosing that he was a reporter, that he helped put him in touch with authorities — but news of the loan first appeared in yesterday’s paper. He and the paper received a barrage of criticism over the news (he’s also received criticism from this reporter, in an incident explained here), and on the midwestern witness stand today, he tried to explain.
  31. in other news
    Scooter Libby, Convict and — Soon — Subject The hottest new almost-trend in publishing: political insta-books, like the Scooter Libby tome commissioned today — a day after his conviction — and due in bookstores next month. For decades there have been successful fast-tracked paperbacks on all sorts of light topics from Star Wars releases to the Pitt-Aniston marriage. The announcement of The United States vs. I. Lewis Libby — to be written be a real reporter, National Journal’s Murray Waas and published by Barnes & Noble’s nonfiction imprint — comes only a week after news of a Barack Obama insta-book, the first about the presidential candidate (he’s written two well-regarded memoirs), delivered only a month after he announced his candidacy. All we need now is one more example, and it’s a genuine, certified trend. Doesn’t any writer have anything he wants to say about Sam Brownback? BN Imprint Rushes Libby Book to Stores [Galleycat/Mediabistro]
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    Hovering Parents Overtake Corporate RecruitingFINANCE • Big firms concede to overinvolved parents and now include them in the recruiting process of recent grads. [Career Journal/WSJ] • Happy belated 70th birthday, Ivan Boesky! [DealBreaker] • The management maxims offered in business books might just be bull, not foxes and hedgehogs. [Forbes]
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    Tyra’s Audience Yearns for ‘Oprah’ TicketsFASHION • Tyra makes audience wear swimsuits and flaunt their weight. No car giveaways here. [Fashionista] • Jeweler Raymond Weil’s breach-of-contract suit against Charlize Theron (he says she wore Dior) moves to federal court. [British Vogue] • Ralph Lauren and Johann Rupert join up for a new luxury watch and jewelry line. [WWD]
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    ‘Voice’ Voiceless, AgainMEDIA • David Blum out at the Village Voice. He was the fourth editor there since December 2005. [Gawker] • Flummoxing DVR users everywhere, ABC green-lights a sitcom based on the Geico cavemen commercials. [WSJ] • Pulitzer judging starts today at Columbia University; judges from Willamette Week, the Indianapolis Star, and others read actual printed copies of newspaper articles. [E&P]
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    Warren Buffett Wants a New Warren BuffettFINANCE • Buffett 2.0: Oracle of Omaha seeks young understudy to take over Berkshire. [Fortune] • Thirteen charged with insider training, including Morgan Stanley, UBS, Bear Stearns, and Bank of America employees. [NYT] • Goldman, Merrill, and Morgan Stanley traders rate own firms barely above junk-bond status. [Bloomberg]
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    It’ll Always Be Brian Williams’s ShowMEDIA • NBC to fire Nightly News exec producer John Reiss. But is it for ratings, or does Reiss not get along with anchor Brian Williams? [NYT and LAT] • Tunku Varadarajan moves from an editorial-page writer to an assistant managing editor at the Wall Street Journal, only the third time in 50 years someone has jumped that divide. [NYO] • Bellevue Hospital starts its own imprint; wannabe Ken Keseys hope for literary success. [NYT]
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    Traders Feared Terrorist AttacksFINANCE • The Dow’s fall yesterday convinced some traders that terrorists had attacked the city once again. “Our first thought was that they blew up Grand Central, or the Empire State building, or the GW,” one said. [DealBreaker] • Adding insult to sell-off, Merrill Lynch slugged five big banks with a lowered rating, downgrading Goldman, Lehman, Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse to neutral from buy. [Bloomberg] • Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein says that the market for buyouts will cool. “There will be declines. We can’t continue like this forever.” Speak for yourself, rich guy. [DealBook/NYT]
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    Steven Soderbergh’s Life Not Interrupted By Jury DutyLAW • Director Steven Soderbergh gets out of jury duty in an Upper East Side sex-crimes trial. [NYT] • Roger Meltzer leaves Cahill Gordon & Reindell and takes his $20 million book of business to DLA Piper, where he will be the head of corporate finance. [The American Lawyer] • With his Anna Nicole Smith antics, Judge Larry Seidlin makes the best case against cameras in the courtroom. [Crime & Federalism via Inside Opinions]
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    Speak, Models!FASHION • Turns out models can speak — at least in Ridley Scott’s new Prada movie. [Fashionista] • Bottega Veneta has designed the interior of a penthouse suite at the St. Regis. [British Vogue] • Model Paulina Porizkova has joined the cast of Dancing With the Stars. [Flypaper] • Naomi Campbell left Premier Models, where she’s spent most of her career, for IMG. [All Company News]
  40. the morning line
    Caffeine Is It! • City Councilman Simcha Felder has either great timing or way more power than we thought. Two days after he embarked on a public crusade to get caffeine content included on food labels, Coca-Cola did what he wanted. [AP via Newsday] • Ooh, a big twist in an otherwise uneventful election! Dr. Mathieu Eugene, the new councilman elected to replace Congresswoman Yvette Clark, has to prove that he actually lives in the district before he can legally take the seat. [NYP] • A five-judge state appeals court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of New York’s long-in-the-tooth Cabaret Law. (A lawsuit claimed that the dancing ban in bars and clubs infringes on free expression.) At least there are no plans to beef up the silly rule’s enforcement. [MetroNY] • NYU’s College Republicans got exactly what they wanted — scandal and press — when they staged a “Catch the Illegal Immigrant” game on campus. (The objective was to spot a student with an “immigrant” tag for a $50 reward.) The event drew 300 angry protesters instead. [NYDN] • And André Balazs isn’t the only one bringing Beaver back to New York. For the first time in 200 years, the actual North American beaver is setting up camp in the Bronx River, a testament to a recent, $15 million cleanup. [NYT]
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    Goldman Bonuses Depress AllFINANCE • Goldman lieutenants score $52.5 million bonuses, take home more than most Wall Street CEOs. [NYT] • Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman calls making a $36 billion real-estate deal “an out-of-body experience.” [Knowledge@Wharton via DealBreaker] • Are public companies going private just so the CEO can make more money? [DealBook/NYT]
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    Lauren Bush Saves the World One Handbag at a TimeFASHION • Presidential niece Lauren Bush is developing a socially conscious clothing line, no doubt inspired by her family’s long-time commitment to environmental causes. [Fashion Week Daily] • A PETA soldier storms the Prada runway in Milan, gets tackled by security. [Elle.com] • The 18-year-old sister of model Luisel Ramos, whose death six months ago triggered the skinny-model ban in Milan, has also passed away from complications related to an eating disorder. [Downtown Darling]
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    The Guy With the Biggest Birthday Party WinsFINANCE • Birthday parties aside, Stephen A. Schwarzman tops Fortune’s private-equity power list. [Fortune via CNNMoney] • Jeff Dorman, a senior managing director of prime brokerage services at Bear Sterns, resigned late last week. Poor guy didn’t even last a year. [DealBook/NYT] • Is Jim Healy, head of fixed income at Credit Suisse, about to resign because of friction with new heads Brady Dugan and Michael Ryan? [DealBreaker]
  44. the morning line
    Viva Sullivan County • Governor Spitzer has approved a “Las Vegas-style” gambling den in the Catskills. The Mohawk tribe will run it, despite the casino being 400 miles away from its reservation, and the state will get a 25 percent cut. That is, if environmentalists and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior get on board. [NYT] • Call us twisted, but we love watching JetBlue continue to flagellate itself over last week’s stranding of its JFK passengers; the CEO of the formerly cuddly airline is scripting a my-bad TV ad and proposing a “customer bill of rights” that will financially penalize JetBlue for such things. [NYDN] • The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office seems eager to reinvent itself as a telenovela. An ADA was suspended for allegedly passing witness info to her boyfriend, a defense attorney; that’s one day after a female investigator was accused of a dalliance with a jailed mobster. How soon before evil twins show up? [NYP] • Next up for Bloombergian rezoning: the Garment Center. Crain’s predicts “a flurry of buying and selling.” Luxury condos? Actually, no, just newer and better offices. Whew. [Crain’s] • And you can always rely on the City Council for an offbeat ordinance proposal. Today, the honor goes to Councilman Simcha Felder, who wants warning labels on coffee. [amNY]
  45. intel
    Hamptons Jury Upholds Volunteer’s Right to Kvetch It’s official: You can kvetch all you want about any organization for which you’re a volunteer — your local hospital, Greenpeace, the Democrats — and it’s thanks to Pat Lynch. The former NBC reporter sued the Southampton Animal Shelter in 2005, saying it had violated her right to free speech when it fired her from her volunteer duties the year before. A jury sided with her this week, awarding her $251,000. Lynch had been walking the center’s dogs and, troubled by conditions there — including how the animals were euthanized — she wrote letters to The Southampton Press expressing her concern, and filed a lawsuit against the shelter. Administrators let her go soon after. “It’s a huge decision,” her lawyer, Steve Morelli, told New York. “Volunteers don’t have to be afraid to speak their mind as long as it’s a matter of public concern and they’re not disruptive.” Good. But if Lynch didn’t agree with the shelter’s policies, why didn’t she just walk away? “I love animals and I wanted to bring about positive change,” she says. “When you volunteer, you don’t leave your First Amendment rights at the front door.” —S. Jhoanna Robledo
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    Anyone Want to Buy a Lad Mag?MEDIA • Felix Dennis puts Maxim, Stuff, and Blender officially on the auction block. [NYP] • Did David Lynch plan this advertising campaign? Annie Leibovitz shoots Scarlett Johansson, David Beckham, Beyoncé, and Lyle Lovett for ads promoting Disney theme-parks. [Radar Online] • Steve Rattner thinks newspapers should be nonprofits, but Jack Shafer says that’s a horrible idea. [WSJ and Slate]
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    Mayor’s Girlfriend Leaves Public for Private SectorFINANCE • Diana Taylor — the mayor’s First Girlfriend — leaves post as state superintendent of banks for boutique investment firm Wolfensohn & Co. [NYP] • Harold Ford Jr. loses Senate race in Tennessee, wins position at Merrill Lynch. [CNNMoney] • Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill wants hedge funds to open up their books. [Spiegel via DealBreaker]
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    We Can’t Wait for the Wax Heatherette FASHION • Kate Moss is the latest fashion celeb to be immortalized in wax. Visitors to Madame Tussauds in London can have their photos taken next to her on a bed. How apropos. [Downtown Darling] • In an attempt to fatten up models, Krispy Kreme is sponsoring London Fashion Week parties. [On the Runway] • Gisele Bündchen will walk just one runway this season — Dolce & Gabbana in Milan. The Brazilian supermodel is the face of D&G’s new fragrance, aptly named the One. [Fashion Week Daily]
  49. in other news
    City Proposal Could Limit Bars to One Homicide Per YearThe City Council is reportedly mulling a curious proposal that would shut down bars as “public nuisances” if more than one person is killed there within a year. That’s right — one murder is fine, but two are pushing it. How very Deadwood. Apart from that eye-catching provision, however, the proposal’s language frees authorities to close places for pretty much any repeated violations (for instance, regular pot smoking or three “violent felonies” on the premises). Club owners, including the folks behind Sol and Crobar, are crying foul: According to them, the nuisance legislation’s language is so vague it can slap the n-word (nuisance, that is) on a bar for virtually any infraction. Which could be a problem. While we’re all for the thinning of the progressively vile 27th Street herd, we’d prefer that the culling be done constitutionally. Council Mulls Bill To Tighten Curbs on Bars [NYS] The Short, Drunken Life of Club Row [NYM]
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    Fashion T-Shirts Get PersonalFASHION • Henry Holland’s new line of naughty tees was finally revealed. Our favorite? WHAM BAM JESSICA STAM! [Fashionista] • GLAAD is honoring Tom Ford at its annual Media Awards. Must not have seen that creepy Vanity Fair cover. [Fashion Week Daily] • According to Yigal Azrouel and Viktor & Rolf, le geek c’est chic once again. [FlyPaper]
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