CONRAD BLACK - Just six months ago, his panache and erudition evident in his new biography of F.D.R., right-wing press baron Conrad Black was momentarily the toast of New York, London, and Toronto, his dazzling columnist wife, Barbara Amiel at his side. Today, accused of taking millions from his Hollinger International conglomerate, he has lost control of an empire that includes London's Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Jerusalem Post, dragging big-name board members such as Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, and Alfred Taubman into a legal mire
13 pages
MARC JACOBS - We explore how an alienated Jewish kid from the Upper West Side survived New York's fabulous, treacherous fashion whirlwind to become a touchstone of cooler than cool, and the guy whose clothes get the girls
8½ pages
CAROLE CAPLIN - 9 pages
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - After scoring in the breakout indie Bend It Like Beckham and opposite Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, Keira Knightley is getting casting calls - and more personal inquiries - from some of Hollywood's biggest hitters. But whether it's the actress's lack of a personal assistant or her reaction to meeting Depp, the 18-year-old starlet is still a London drama geek who, Steven Daly learns, can't quite believe her career's fairy-tale beginning
8 pages