"The fact that it's not a weapon doesn't mean it's not some creative use of a caustic agent, " the official said.

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Other conference goers, many of whom are Gadgetoff regulars, also shone: including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman, computer engineer Danny Hillis, polymathic inventor Dean Kamen, sly literary agent John Brockman and Creative Good's Mark Hurst.

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Mr. Giammetti even paused to take a photograph with his iPhone of a woman with a bob identical to Anna Wintour's, and then shared it with his dinner partners, the designer Diane von Furstenberg and the agent Bryan Lourd from the Creative Artist Agency.

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Another way the players could get creative: pointing out the number of recent draft picks and free agent hopefuls were not part of the union when negotiations started.

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Sports reported Tuesday that he has already started that process in hopes of being certified as an NBA agent and signing draft-eligible players to Roc Nation Sports, the sports agency his company founded with Creative Artists Agency.

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Sports reported Tuesday that he has already started that process in hopes of being certified as an NBA agent and signing draft-eligible players to Roc Nation Sports, the sports agency his company founded with Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

WSJ: Jay-Z Said to Be Looking to Leave Nets