Word: ralph
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...risks and ignore boundaries have always been trouble for resort operators, but now they're a revenue source as well. People are "living a lot closer to the edge of the envelope than we ever were and are looking for something to test them in a different way," says Ralph Walton Jr., chairman of Crested Butte Mountain Resort, which has added a wilderness experience to its mix. Crested Butte has built a new lift to provide access to 550 acres of steep, ungroomed runs called Extreme Limits. It also offers guided snowshoe tours and telemark classes. Says Walton: "We made...
...tears to be for women when they watch female weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant at the Empire State Building because she's been hit by a car, or The English Patient, in which Kristin Scott Thomas can't meet Ralph Fiennes because she has died alone in a cave. I mean, women are drawn to this material in a creepy, Pavlovian way, right? Surely they don't enjoy...
...Millennium Conversations: A Spirited Dialogue on Community Change," a panel discussion at the Museum of Afro-American History. Panelists include the Rev. Ray Hammond, Marian Heard, Jackie Jenkins Scott, Matt Storin, Anna Faith Jones and Ralph Martin. 8 Smith Ct., Beacon Hill. 6 p.m. Suggested admission donation...
Since Ken Starr and the House Republicans ended the year more unpopular than Clinton, the G.O.P. also needs to distance itself from its obsession with dislodging the President. Conservative activists maintain that there was no way to sidestep impeachment. "The conservative base would have imploded," says Ralph Reed, onetime head of the Christian Coalition who is now a consultant. "We would have gone into 2000 like a three-legged horse...
...must know then that 24 hours earlier, I was getting the lowdown on her profession from two of New York's Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...